Wildlife in a Suburban Garden

Thank you for looking at my Blog this year, it's been a good one for me and I have enjoyed sharing my photos with you.  No matter where you are in the world I wish you a very happy Christmas.  

It's been a hard task to get good photos this last few days, the weather has been appalling, very wet and even more windy. We have a lot of surface water on  the local marsh, it's as  flooded as I have ever seen it. I went for a visit earlier in the afternoon to see if I could find anything interesting. The entire access road through the marsh was flooded but the birds were quite close to the  roads  and were easily disturbed  by walkers out to enjoy the bright late afternoon sun.  You can almost tell what the weather was like in the Blue Tit photo above.

Not really quite sure waht this guy was all about?

The Blackcap female was back at the apple this lunchtime. I had seen it yesterday feeding in the middle of a really intense rainstorm. It made me realise how important the apple is to this bird, I assume it's the same one that I have been seeing for all of December. I hope to see a male but as yet we haven't had one this year and for that matter last winter either.