Birds on the balcony

[macklingirl]

Today it was under -3° Celsius and it was drizzling the whole day. So you can say it wasn't a nice day, but we had visitors on my fathers balcony.

There were three bullfinches, one female and two male.

This is the single man.




And here are Mister and Misses Bullfinch in the cherrytree




And Mister Bullfinch captured the feeding house.



The war of the bullfinches was observed by Mister Robin



I took the pictures through the window with eightfold optical zoom and additional fivefold digital zoom.Therefore, the images are slightly out of focus.

Comments

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

In former times we had blue tits and great tits on the balcony as well. But this year they are very rare. Sometimes we have a wren too.

And thank you that you like the pictures. :-)

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

I thought I saw a little jenny wren the other day, while I was out and about. I couldn't believe it - they're as rare as hen's teeth.

I've heard blue tits suffered from the decline in milkmen - in the old days they would peck through the milk bottle tops and steal the cream as a supplement to their diet. Now we all get our milk in cartons (well, a lot of us do). It can't be the only reason, but I don't suppose it helps.

It's nice to see garden birds out and about :0)

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

The wren is a steady guest at our balcony.

We are feeding the blue tits but I think there are to many people around who feed them as well. And so they won't come to us because of the robin. It is very dominant. :-)