Sometimes it pays to stay at home and bird watch
Yesterday I went for ‘the long walk’ around my patch, down the Lane, over the fields to the River and back. Besides the Fieldfares there was very little about either with Birds or other wildlife.

I got home and thought I’d wrap up, pull out my Garden Chair and see what comes along – it was quite delightful.
Observation of the back garden bird feeder seems the Tits have a kind of rota system; the
Great Tits
,
Blue Tits
and
Coal Tits
all seem to come at different times right after each other.
All of them mix well with the resident
House Sparrows
and
Dunnocks
and take little notice of the invading
Starlings
and
Great Spotted Woodpecker
.

Also visiting were a
Green Woodpecker
,
Grey Wagtails
and a
Jay
, all of which were camera shy and seemed to avoid the lens at all costs.
However, a
Yellowhammer
did sit on the Clothes Line for just enough time for me to get a shot.
Pride of place though was a Male Common Buzzard perching on the Electricity Cables above the back hedge. I was especially pleased with this as it’s usually only the female which I see gliding about.


Some Lapwings on the wasteland, overall upwards of 200
Everyday it seems will spring up at least one surprise, but even if it doesn’t it’s a joy and a great learning curve to just sit and observe who’s where and what’s what.