The cold weather pushed lots of birds into the garden this morning. My wife
mentioned glimpsing a strange one and I had a few heart-stopping glimpses of it
with thoughts of exotic rarities until this hopped into clear view….
A poor picture in bad light but obviously some species of
White-eye, undoubtedly an escapee from someone’s aviary. Oh well… It came back a couple more times through the day but a Robin acted very aggressively towards it each time and drove it off.
In addition to the usual sparrows, finches and
tits other birds in the garden included Nuthatch, Great-spotted Woodpecker, four
Jackdaws and at least six Greenfinches. The most I have seen for many months.
Yesterday I spent some time in the churchyard. There are
four mature Yews in there and I had thoughts of finding Hawfinch. No luck but
lots of bird activity including a handful of Bullfinches…
…A flock of 30 Long-tailed tits with a couple of Goldcrests
tagging along, two Nuthatches, a Sparrowhawk, five Cormorants and buzzard over
and lots of Starlings and thrushes feeding…
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