As I approached the hide with the feeders a Dunnock was busily displaying to a nearby female.
The feeders were a tadge busy!
Blue Tit
Goldfinch
Blue Tit
Pheasant - lots of dark ones around there
Hang on a minute what's this?
Siskin!
Blue Tit
Siskin playing peekaboo!
Long Tailed Tit - sorry Diane !
Goldfinch
A Great Tit makes an appearance
Greenfinch
Starling
Mute Swan
So I headed to Rye Meads.
Lots of birds singing and they were all very active chasing off potential invaders of their territory.
From Draper hide there were pairs of Snipe and Oystercatcher
A record shot of an Oystercatcher.
Dunnock
Juvenile Gull
I popped into Kingfisher and hide and a Kingfisher was showing. Also this teal.
There were quite a few Chiffchaffs singing (saw two) and the numbers of Cetti's grows each year. Saw my first small tortoiseshell butterfly of the year.
Very nice day.
4 comments:
Nice variety of birds and I love this time of the year when they're so vocal and busy.
The blue tit in the 2nd picture looks as though it's launching itself through space... nice one :D
Wow Pete, what a great selection of birds. Great stuff.
Lovely photos, Pete. Great to see the siskin pics and the long-tailed tit is very cute.
You didn't just capture beautiful birds...you got some great facial expressions.
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