Regular readers will know about the Happy Eater tree in my front garden, from where I photograph birds that visit the feeders I have there. This year I’ve also hung some feeders around the Shed. Not much happened though, the odd sparrow and bluetit now and then. However in the last month it seems to have turned into Birdy Central, with lots of sparrows, bluetits and a few blackbirds visiting frequently and en masse. I’ve run out of bird food til I go shopping tomorrow, but the Shed feeders are still half full, so this morning the whole lot descended on them. As well as the sparrows and blackbirds, we now have 3 thrushes that turned up at the front this week, and out of no-where 2 greenfinches came to visit while I was having my breakfast. Not seen them before so very exciting! Shot upstairs to get my camera and managed a couple of shots. Yay!
More exciting even than that, this evening I spotted a bird on one of the houses opposite, at first I thought it was a pigeon, but then it swooped down to my garden for an instant and it was obviously a hawk of some description, probably a sparrow hawk. Phil spotted it had then landed a few houses along and sat on the rooftop there. My poor old telephoto lens was at full extension trying to get a shot as this was quite a way away, and of course the dark rooftop against the bright(ish) sky made it into a half silhouette as well as being a small bird on the photo. All the fannying on in the world couldn’t get a decent result of the birds feathers, so I cropped the image and went full sihouette.
I wonder if he’s keeping an eye on Birdy Central 😳
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He might be the boss of the gang🤔🤔 One can never know: he might give orders for all the birds to go full Hitchcock! (hey..it can happen you know😅😅😂😂).
Seriously: great pictures again! Awesome this turned into bird central now that must be very rewarding as well! 😊
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Michel! I was just thinking how awesome it is that Fraggle’s Shed is the happening hot spot for the avian crowd, when you had to go and bring up Hitchcock!😱
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I was ignoring the Hitchcock reference, that movie scared the bejeesus out of me when I was a kid!
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Haha….yep, sorry guess I’ve seen way too many movies! 😂😂
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I think it’s some kind of nature geeky thing that happens to you when you get old. 🤣 if anyone had told me when I was in my 20’s that I would be getting excited about greenfinches I’d have had them committed 😂
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Hahaha 😂😂 Having just woken up and reading this comment I’m laughing so hard that people might think I need to be committed now😂😂
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Good way to start the day!
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That hawk will be eating all your favourite little birds soon. Watch out for it!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hope he does it when my camera is at the ready! 😉
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This is so cool Fraggle! I especially love the green finch. The hawk is majestic looking, but he/she makes me nervous for your smaller feathered friends.
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Raptors are wonderful birds to watch. We have eagles, turkey vultures, and red-tailed hawks here. At times you find them sitting in your tree and just watch them. Silhouettes are one way to see a bird, which I like a lot, as do I like the colorful ones – birds we don’t have here.
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You’re so lucky to have them, I’d love trying to photograph them.
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I know, they’ll have to be quick, but I don’t think the angle is right for a quick kill and they’d scarper before he turned. I was worried too 😊
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I’ve never seen a green finch!
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You have now! 😊 cheers Marland.
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Thanks, my friend! Can I record it in my eBird list? 🙂
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Of course!
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