Saturday, January 10, 2009

A day full of birds

Outside Her studio window wild birds flock in the cold to the bushes where bird feeders hang.
A robin, bright eyed, red breasted.



Gangs of house sparrows that feed on all the different foods.




Great tits that bully and fight with the smaller birds and love the new suet pellets that are so very yellow.



Tiny dunnock, deceptively brown but with all shade of blues hidden in the feathers.




Rainbow dressed male chaffinch that feed on the seeds and glean the ground below.




Blue tits, bright and beautiful.




Female blackbirds and their bright yellow beaked partners, a whole flock, gathered together as the ground is so hard they cannot feast on worms, but love the trays of suet mixed with fruits and nuts.







Not bad pictures really, when you consider that She took them through the studio windows and we know how dirty Her windows are!

7 comments:

Peg A said...

Beautiful!!!!!

Griffin said...

Wonderful pictures. So clear too. They look fabulous in their finery. Good source material for illustrating a Parliament of Fowles too! ;)

my croft said...

ooh. television for cats. how thoughtful.

BumbleVee said...

Wonderful pictures of all the birds! What an assortment!

Michelle said...

a post after my own heart!

Val said...

Lovely pictures, makes me homesick for British birds!

Gwen Buchanan said...

I really loved seeing the birds outside your door.. They have such different coloring than our little fellows... great shots... I am trying to coax more at the moment, with some suet... hope they come...