back garden birds...

As you know, I am very lucky with the birds that visit my back garden. A great variety for such a small area. Today I got to do some work from home and so at lunchtime I decided to sit on the bench in the back garden with my camera for a bit.... I've been doing this on and off to try to get the birds to trust me and come to feed when I sit there. It's working!

I've never seen anything like it, a flock of 50 or so birds, mostly siskin but also redpoll, goldfinches, brambling and the black cap again...all feeding within a few feet!

I saw 'orange' headed redpoll today for the first time and need to figure out why they are orange instead of red. Tough choice to blip because I have a few favourite individual bird photos...this one might give you some idea of what I see.

It's digitally altered' to try to make the birds stand out a bit more...!