For the third year in a row I'm going to 'cheat' because I get to rescue Feral Pigeons and that gives me a head start on this years youngsters. So here are Niles and Daphne, as featured in another thread. I'm sure there will be plenty more before the year is out!
Alan W said: This little fella had a slight bump with the kitchen window, it wasn't knocked out just dazed and landed on a branch but noticed a wasp round it so went out to make sure it didn't get stung.
This little fella had a slight bump with the kitchen window, it wasn't knocked out just dazed and landed on a branch but noticed a wasp round it so went out to make sure it didn't get stung.
Looks like a juvenile goldfinch, nicely saved from a possible wasp devouring it.
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Not sure if these are all one family of Collared Doves. But regular visitors to garden.
Good to see so many Greenies as their numbers were dwindling with the dreadful Trichomonas disease.
We have been getting up to 20/30 Goldfinch and same numbers of Greenfinch in the garden at the same time over the past month. Strangely though many have been ground feeding as even with 6 x 4 perch feeders in the garden there aren't enough spaces for all of them at once. We have been filling all 6 feeders daily but thankfully now its calmed down.
Taken July at Janets Foss
A nice spot.
I've only just started to see the odd juv bullfinch. It's as if all the successful bullfinch broods came from later in the summer this year.
monkeycheese said:Are there any others hidden away I wonder?
Today I saw a fairly new additional member to the garden from a late brood ............
Only record pics from distance but here's Momma to give you a clue ............and you'll see a tiny top of a head in the "blue lagoon" ......
when it popped its head up I saw a very young baby Bullfinch :) awwwwww and I think there were more than just one fledgling from their sound.
Lovely pic of the proud Mother and her offspring. Are there any others hidden away I wonder?