Robin and friends in the back garden

dunnock in the cane leaves

Great tit,

Magpie in flight

The blue tit in the coconot filled with sunflower seed,,

wood pigeon

Squirrel waiting to get at the feeder

Female blackbird

song thrush

I am sure I can see a bird,

Sylvester in his watch tower

Bird rescue

Sitting at the computer this morning I heard a bang against the front window, a noise I hear all to often in the summer when the young blackbirds hit the window usually knocking themselves out most service and fly off after a few minutes, but today it was a female Chaffinch she lay motionless on the paving rather than the cats getting to her I climbed out of the window to see if she was ok even though she looked dead, on picking her up she moved her legs, rather than give it beck to mouth I resuscitated her by stroking with my finger then she flapped her wings , I cradled her in my hands for a minute before putting her in the cat basket on the radiator. then she started to move a bit so lifted her up again to se if she wanted to fly off seemed quite happy where she was perched on my hand covering from her ordeal. after a few more minutes I put her outside on a wire then she flew off, but not before I took her photo.

Whewn I first picked her up I thought she was dead

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The finches are Such tiny birds

Here she is in the cats cradle on the radiator

Almost recovered but still looks a bit dizzy

Here she is almost ready to fly off again.

Figs, Miss Muffet and blue tits

The fig tree in the summer  house is completely leaf bare but has about50 figs  half of which will survive the winter and will get ripe in May/June,

While in the summer house that I have made into a hide to watch the birds in the back garden  this blue tit came in through the open glass door

It did not panic as one may think a trapped bird would do on seeing A human in such close proximity.  so I took a couple of shots   then I sat down and waited for it to finish cleaning what grubs it found on the fig tree,it was  on the tree for about 5 minutes before it flew out  on the feeder.

Chaffinch and Dunnock in the front garden, there was three male chaffinch in back the garden ,

 

Female blackbird  feeding on the apples

Then this little fellow  decided to do a miss muffet
 and sat on the pillow beside me while taking snaps of the birds.


Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey,
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffet away.