A new bird for the garden.

A very smart male Reed Bunting

Black-throated Thrush

Another pic of this months goodie

long wait over

3 pics of the whitby black-throated thrush.............enjoy

waiting

white-collared

smyrna

Whilst waiting for the spring, here's a couple of kingfishers to give you palpitations !

A kestrel called Sally-Ann

Taken into care.............feeding well and likes sitting on the radiator in my study looking out of the window at the other birds feeding in the snow.

Frost-Bittern

a welcome visitor to the local patch here in Hackney - more at Hackney Wildlife

cheating !

red-tailed

red-backed

great-grey

bay-backed

can't compete so here's 4 shrikes from oman just for the hell of it.

bored yet? not me

Oh come on, how often do you get to commune with one of our most notoriously shy species at your local duck pond in the middle of Gotham?

To all readers of this blog and their families :-

from sunny Bridlington harbour

hangover cures

Clissold Park's long-stayin', all-singin' & dancin' Cetti's Warbler, New Year's Day, Hackney; Taiga Flycatcher at the reservoirs; Mandarin and Wigeon spending the hols in Scarborough (suggesting a West Yorkshire origin).
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