It's that cold and dismal time of January that is designated for the RSPB Birdwatch. I always find my avian friends don't rise to the occasion as much as they might, although at least this year was only cold (not also wet or snowing).
I took two shots at the hour allotted to count birds in... just before lunch yesterday and today. Both days had their own challenges; yesterday my next-door neighbours disrupted proceedings getting their gutters cleaned, today the bottom of the garden neighbours were doing building works.
Saturday was pigeon invasion - for once Casper (who insists that the same few birds flying on and off the roof are an invasion) wouldn't have been far short of the mark; these were taken from the spare room window looking to the roof over our bedroom.
There were at least 16 feral and rock pigeons and one rather stand-offish wood pigeon!
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Sunday saw rather less birds as the pigeons were boycotting the feeder as the easy access tray was empty - this allowed a lot more variety to visit. There was the chaffinch, two blue-tits and and a great-tit, a trio of starlings, a collared dove and the wood pigeon, one bold pigeon, Mr & Mrs Blackbird and another Mrs Blackbird, the little brown bird (I think it's a dunnock) and two robins (tennis ball on wings and slimmer friend).
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The squirrel came to get in on the action too! One of the Mrs Blackbird's chased the other off... and the pigeon (all alone today) stayed up the other end of the path out of the melee!
You can see all the pictures from both days in the Flickr album.
