Psilos Bird Journal
Friday April 25th 2008
     
Jills garden
 
Sometimes when the weather is so bad doorstep birding is your only resort. So take one friends garden, an endless supply of coffee and an open patio window and see what turns up. Blackbirds are common as well as an elusive pair of Song thrush nesting in a nearby ivy covered tree.
female blackbird
     

 


There are a good number of House sparrows visiting the garden.
 
 
and hungry starlings are never far away
 
Good numbers of finches are around too. Chaffinches, Greenfinches and Goldfinch. This shot was the only one I got of the bird out in the open and by this time the light was so bad my shutter speed was almost non existant.
 
 
We also got a very nice surprise from quite a rare visitor. A male and female Bullfinch.
 
 
 
and we were delighted with the antics of a pair of Long tailed tits nesting nearby.
 
 
 
 
 
 
and finally another creature that likes watching the birds....Daisy!