Thursday, 1 December 2011

Garden birds!

Autumn Watch said not to put fat balls in nets out for the birds but how else can they be positioned in a tree?
This one is outside the lounge window and with the new super camera I could zoom in and catch a very happy blue tit.
The blackbirds have also learnt to use them even though I put stuff on the garden table for them.
There is a crowd of birds that come now the weather has turned colder. Many coal tits, chaffinches, dunnocks, greenfinches, robins (who fight), blackbirds and of course the pheasants.
I've spent a lot of time trying to catch the red squirrel on camera. He or she is very tame and around a lot but is quite camera shy. It's funny how the equally endearing grey squirrel is such a pest in the English garden while the red squirrel is a treasured visitor. There are lots to be seen in the woods and there it is the cappers and black grouse that prove elusive. I have seen the latter but only seen a dead capercaille. Found of course by the inquisitive dog but not killed by mine...of that I am certain.

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