Thursday 23 December 2010

Tuesday 21 December 2010

Goldfinch




Lots of Goldfinches have been visiting a tree in our next door neighbours garden and I can just about photograph them from one of our back bedroom windows. They do not usually visit this tree to my knowledge, but I suppose this extreme cold weather has meant that they have to feed on whatever they can find, not what they would prefer. as you can see from the pics the tree has some kind of catkin type seed head from which they are extracting the little seeds

Sunday 19 December 2010

Out and about in the snow





Had a good afternoon wandering around the nature reserve after our snowfall yesterday. You can always rely on the Robin to show up. Anyway here are some of the pics that I managed to get