More Bird Pictures

Just a wee note to post more bird pictures from a few days ago.  Now that spring is here, they are darting all over the place and costing me a fortune in supplying them with food!!

Male Chaffinch

Little Bluetit

Sparrows and Goldfinches, including a Goldfinch in flight

Goldfinch

"Skull-duggery"

As yesterday was quite a nice day I decided to do some tidying in the garden.  While clearing up leaves from under the shrubs directly under our livingroom window, I found the skeleton of a bird (probably either a starling or a blackbird).  I think the poor thing has flown into the window and been killed and I've never discovered it till now.  I found the skull pretty well intact so tried out the macro function of the camera to capture the image.  Look away now if you're a bit squeamish!!!

Hungry Birds

You've probably heard of the game 'Angry Birds' but in  my garden it's a game of 'hungry birds'!!!  They are positively eating me out of house and home at the moment!!  It's costing me an absolute fortune!  However, I don't really mind as I'm getting a nice mix of birds coming to the garden and I can see them beginning to pair up for the spring, so I'm hoping that they all bring their babies along once the eggs are laid and hatched.

It's been a bit windy today, but I caught quite a good shot of a chaffinch today getting it's feathers ruffled by the wind.

RIP Davy Jones

It's very sad to read of the sudden passing of Davy Jones from the Monkees.  He was my biggest heart-throb of the 1960s, and I had posters and pictures of him pinned up everywhere!!  I reckon he was probably my first celebrity crush - him and Clint Eastwood!!!

RIP Davy Jones