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It's been a long time since I've had Long-Tailed Tits (Aegithalos caudatus caudatus) visiting my feeders in winter but now they're suddenly here every day. It started Saturday with only two of them:

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two small white and black birds with long tail feathers feeding on fatballs

Every day they brought more and more friends and this morning there were ( five of them... )

Current Mood: happy

calzephyr

The bird feeder had a visit from grey partridges the other day. I've accidentally startled them before--the sparrows toss seed down from the bird feeder and they don't care for corn--but it was so polite of them to use the sidewalk :-D

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turlough

Was suprised to see the first Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) by a house wall this morning. While it hasn't been really cold, it hasn't been particularly warm either, and I haven't seen any anywhere else. This is a rather sheltered, southward facing spot though and I suspect the house (it's quite old) isn't very well insulated.

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tiny white drop-shaped flowers against a grey wall

Current Mood: surprised

turlough

We have no snow here in southeastern Sweden, but after a couple of clear and cold nights (with overcast days, alas) the heavy frost covering everything looks very pretty.

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Current Mood: cold

ysabetwordsmith

I took some pictures of the wildflower garden today after I finished cleaning it up. I leave things through the winter because some of the plants, like the northern sea oats and echinacea, have seeds for wildlife. I pick off and plant a lot of the seeds but never get around to all of them. Goldfinches especially like to cling to the seedheads and peck out the seeds.

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Current Mood: accomplished

ysabetwordsmith

Today I took some pictures of the sprouting flowers in my yard.

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Current Mood: accomplished

turlough

In England the Robin might be the Christmas bird par excellence, but here in Sweden it's the Bullfinch so even though it's a week until Advent I still thought it very apt that the first birds I saw on my feeder this wintry morning were two male Bullfinches (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).

two red, black, and grey birds on feeder

Current Mood: cold

turlough

This morning a Jay (Garrulus glandarius) showed up at my bird feeders for the first time ever.

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beige-pink, blue, and black & white bird on the ground

Current Mood: impressed

turlough

A small flock of Goldfinches (Carduelis carduelis) visiting my feeders today and managed to get a pretty good photo of one of them. They're such beautiful birds but I'm grateful they don't visit very often - the rate they consume hemp seeds would soon ruin my finances :-)

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brown and black bird with red, white, and yellow markings on bird feeder

Current Mood: relieved

turlough

I had a new visitor at my feeders today, a Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes). I haven't seen one of those in at least fifteen years!

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black and pale orange bird perched on feeder

Current Mood: surprised

nanila

The reward for going on a long walk on this icy morning was a close encounter with a flock of redwings feasting on ivy in the hedgerows.

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turlough

This afternoon a small flock of Bullfinches (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) visited the maple outside my window and I managed to take this photo sequence of one of the females.

First she was crunching a seed
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( then she digested it... )

Current Mood: pleased

nanila

It was snowing all yesterday in rural Worcestershire, UK, so the peanut feeder was especially busy. This industrious blue tit was very pleased with its success.

turlough

Saw a small flock of Waxwings (Bombycilla garrulu) today and managed to take a couple of rather nice photos:

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two cream-coloured birds with markings in black, yellow, red

( One more... )

Current Mood: pleased

nanila

This noble raptor has taken to sitting on a fence post opposite my office window, and giving me side-eye.

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turlough

Managed to take quite a nice photo of a Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) this morning.

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small white & black & cream bird with long tail

Current Mood: relaxed

nanila

Youngest and I spent some time together quietly bird-watching after we filled up the peanut feeder on Saturday, and were rewarded with some very close-up views of a bright-eyed blue tit.

seasonoftowers

Went hiking last weekend, and what was boring rain in the valley and frozen rain on the slope turned into extremely dramatic clouds + 80km/h wind once we hit the ridge. I've posted a couple of photos on my blog.

yourlibrarian

turlough

For once I had the camera ready when there was ( an invasion of Long-tailed tits... )

Current Mood: accomplished

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