I came across this male Chaffinch this morning that was acting in an interesting but perhaps a bit of a stupid way. It had seen it's own image in the wing mirror of a parked car and decided that his reflection was in fact competition for his territory, a sure sign that spring is on the way – well it's almost here already. It was repeatedly banging itself in to the mirror and never cottoned on at  all for the 5 minutes I watched it. Quite fascinating really.  Its a good time of year to photograph Chaffinch as they are in high breeding condition and look the best that are going to look.  I know that some photographers in other countries  use carved small bird decoys to attract birds to photograph and I have often thought about doing this and I think that this proves that it would work extremely well although you wouldn't want to do it too much or for too long as it would probably interfere with natural breeding behaviour of the birds that reacted to it.