Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Sunny...

A day off today and the sun is shining. A loiter around the garden had a nice Red legged Partridge singing from the back field. I saw it as it ran off over the rise. This is a garden tick for me taking that list to 121 species in almost 6 years. Not bad.



While out, the local Goldfinches were very active today with males singing and swaying side to side for females nearby.I think they look territorial so there might be a breeding attempt in the garden this year?

Female Goldfinch.

Male Goldfinch singing...

Male swinging and swaying his fanned tail...

While the camera was out a Starling looked to good to ignore...


3 comments:

Simon Douglas Thompson said...

Goldfinch only transient visitors to my garden, it being a pretty concrete deal. Plenty of good trees though, in which the tits zeep about.

Warren Baker said...

Nice images Today Stewart. Red Legged Partridge was the latest addition to my garden list too !

Amanda Peters said...

The photos of the Goldfinch are stunning, I am really falling in love with Starlings, such a wonderful range of colours and they can sing too..
Amanda xx