More photos from today in the big park near my place…
Bird of the day was a flyover Osprey; first of the spring.
There were 3 or 4 crossbills in the tiny park near my apartment too…
More photos from today in the big park near my place…
Bird of the day was a flyover Osprey; first of the spring.
There were 3 or 4 crossbills in the tiny park near my apartment too…
Very tame this one. There was a small group of Hawfinch that were not as tame though..
I saw a nice flock of redpolls yesterday but couldn’t get close enough for photos…
But other passerines remain.
A very tame one in the tiny park…
Some Hawfinch and Brambling were around…not so tame sadly.
From the big park near my place today…
Muddy as you can see.
Common Crossbill, Common Redpoll and Brambling also around; another finch day.
This male Hawfinch was bold in every sense…
I walked down the river in town yesterday and there are still plenty of birds around including quite a lot of Hawfinches…
I could probably fix it in photoshop if I really wanted to…
Still a few Hawfinches around…
The unassuming and modest Hawfinch…quite a few of these around today.
This one even managed to find some berries intact on a tree after the Dusky Thrushes/waxwings cleaned the joint out a few weeks ago.
Most Hawfinches are skittish and fly off immediately. This one didn’t…
The male Grey-headed Woody was in the big park…
As were a small flock of Common Crossbill and the Hawfinches…
Think this a male.
Think this is a first winter or female (or both!)…
These seem to have replaced the redpolls…
There was a flock of a dozen or so in the big park near my place and several other individuals round and about.