Garden Fledglings

We are experiencing some dull, damp and overcast weather today which is due to be with us for a few more days. I used the opportunity to study and photograph the birds in my garden with the new "Metz" flash gun. I must say that I am very pleased with the results now that I am starting to get my head round it. It has enabled me to take good pictures in conditions where photography would have been almost impossible without the flash. The first thing that I saw this morning on the garden feeder was a young Goldfinch, obviously newly fledged from a nest somewhere nearby. I am pleased about this. We have now had the young of 4 different species of bird in the garden this year so far which is pretty good. They are Blackbird, Collared Dove. Great Tit and Goldfinch.
So in order here are a few photos of the 'creche", starting with Goldfinch:

This is a young Collared Dove, very similar to the adults but with dark feet and darker, not red eye.
Then we have a few adult birds. This Great Tit was taking the sunflower seed to feed her youngsters.

This is the male, look at the difference in colour pattern.

This is an adult Goldfinch and probably the parent of the young Graypate on the feeder pictured above. Then later this afternoon this Whitethroat in the local park

One response to “Garden Fledglings”

Little Brown Job

May 13, 2009 at 8:36 pm

Loads of youngsters there, just the Dunnock here so far, hoping to see a few young Starlings after all the food they’ve eaten.

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