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It’s no wonder this fledgling Starling was grumpy today. It was pouring with rain, there was no food left in the bird house and everyone had left him on his own!
Just your common or garden housefly…in the garden…at least, I think it’s a housefly, I’m no expert. We’ve had a big clear out of the garden and are waiting for a lot of the new plants to flower for the first time so we haven’t had the usual vloume of
This is the first time I’ve seen the Goldfinch this year. Debbie has seen it (and its fledgling) a number of times. Unfortunately they don’t go anywhere other than the feeder in the garden and when they have had their fill they leave the garden entirely, hence you get the
We had another new young visitor today when a fledgling Goldfinch arrived with one of its parent’s. We always enjoy the Goldfinch visits and I think this is the first time we have (knowingly) seen one of their fledglings.
After a few days of baking sunshine we came back down with a bump and loads of rain today. Unfortunately, we missed out of the forecast thunder storms, but at least the umidity has cleared and the temperature has dropped significantly, hopefully meaning we can have a good nights sleep
This poor Blue Tit is being worked to death by its brood of chicks. At this time of year all the birds are looking exhausted.
We’ve had very little fledgling action, except from the Starlings. Last year we had all sorts including Blue Tits, Sparrow and Greenfinch fledglings so far ths year, nothing, until today. The Sparrows visited with two of their fledglings today, and here’s one of them, looking quite cute on our garden
Another shot from up on the TV aerial, this time of a Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis). S/he was singing away, I suspect requesting that I leave the garden immediately so she could dig into the bird seed we kindly provide. As soom as I had gone back in s/he was down
Rain, harrased parents and fledglings have been the order of the day in the garden today. Here we have a few images of the madness that is the starlings and their fledglings. The starlings look in a lot better condition than the tits and our poor coal tit (below) is
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