Following on from my last post where a Female Brambling found it's way to my feeding station from it's breeding grounds of Northern Europe. I was very pleased to see a male turn up today, it was with a small number of Chaffinch's that were braving the heavy rain scuttling about amongst the twigs and leaf litter searching for food.
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| male brambling |
I had a great start to the day with regular visits from my usual suspects including a very photogenic Great Spotted Woodpecker,
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| male great spotted woodpecker |
And a very obliging Wren.
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| wren |
I thought I'd hit the jackpot when a Red Kite flew in close to my feeders, I managed to real off about 20 shots but then realised my settings were all wrong on my camera and by the time I got them right two crows started attacking the Kite and it flew off.
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| red kite |
The shots were massively under exposed so non of them were keepers. The shot above was about the best of them, I tried to bring them back in photoshop but no good. Still it was great to see the Kite and hopefully maybe one day I'll get a photo of this bird that I'll be pleased with (as long as I get my bleeding settings right).
