Birds Birds in the garden December 13, 2016 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment It was difficult to concentrate at the weekend as there was so much happening outside the living room window…here’s a selection of still pictures and videos of birds eating wild food and at and under the bird feeder! Blackbird / svarttrost Tree sparrow (pilfink) with greenfinch (grønnfink) Redpolls (gråsisik) feeding on nettle seed Fieldfare (gråtrost) on (rotten) apple Rear view of Hawfinch (kjernebiter) A robin (rødstrupe) payed a short visit, here with house sparrows (gråspurv) and goldfinch (stillits) Still picture seemingly showing the greenfinch beak in the powerful hawfinch beak.. Hawfinch, goldfinches, greenfinches, brambling and chaffinches...here also a chaffinch appears to beg the hawfinch for food..Some 400 Jackdaws gathering in a field on the other side of the bay at dusk, before flying over the house to the roost at Vikhammer! BEST SEEN IN HD!!Hawfinches with goldfinches, greenfinches and chaffinchGreenfinches with pair of bullfinchesFieldfare feeding on rotten apple!A robin made a quick visitHere we see a greenfinch trying to take morcels of seed from a hawfinch (kjernebiter)..I saw this several times today and yesterday...it happens very quickly, but a still picture (below) seems to show the greenfinch's beak inside the beak of the hawfinch and the greenfinch is pushed away..
Birds Birds in the garden 14th February 2016 February 15, 2016 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment House sparrow / gråspurv Yellowhammers, Greenfinch and Brambling Yellowhammer / Gulspurv Male chaffinch / bokfink
Birds Bramblings December 13, 2015 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment The biggest flock of bramblings I’ve ever seen in the garden, over 75, today, 13th December 2015!! http://www.edimentals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/P1050218.mp4