What have you seen

Greylag, off topic I know, but would absolutely love to see a photo of your new puppy. 😊

Not the best of mornings to take photos as it was very murky and via windows that need a clean but I spotted this outside earlier today. We have a winter flowering japanese honeysuckle which has a lovely scent and is a great attraction to bees and insects throughout the winter however it also attracts the occasional Bullfinch at this time of the year. The buds fly off but it's a sight worth seeing. Apologies for photo quality but here's what I saw today.

Great to see these bullfinches, he looks like he's coming into breeding season plumage, lovely steel blue back. Usually the female is also close at hand too, any sight of her? These birds have been persecuted in the past as they have a tendancy to cause damage in orchards and soft fruit farms but I'm seeing more around these days.

No just a single sighting as per usual, they are handsome little birds and it's true not liked by fruit farms, the local fruit farms have reduced in size a lot but we still only see the one Bullfinch each year. 

I say this every year but come the time for the RSPB survey I won't see any of our more unusual visitors. 

We're lucky in that we still see a pair quite regularly, well until they've depleted the buds from our trees and shrubs. A small price to pay though.

Flitting through our Forsythia today.

Pliers...as requested in PET section

Thanks, Greylag.

Great photo of an absolutely gorgeous pup. 😊

For the last couple of day we have had a visit from a pair of Gold Crests, a lovely looking bird that is slightly smaller than a wren.

Sorry but not managed to get a picture yet.

They're not easy to snap, so tiny and fast. 

They sure are.

They don't stay long but seem to like flitting through the branches of our large Corkscrew Hazel.