Mikepércs: Tits and Some Winter Mood

The last day and the last photography of this year has arrived. By morning the white frost has covered the trees beautifully so I hoped I could add some winter mood to the photos, suuposing the tits would like it too. Anyway they come in flocks to the feeder in the forest. I couldn't take photos only of the single blue tit, all other 3 species are here:

Marsh Tit

I think the coal tit will be a regular visitor at the feeder:

Coal Tit

Coal Tit

Marsh Tit

Great Tit

Coal Tit

I could record the male woodpecker again:

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Mikepércs: Coal Tits, Woodpeckers and Jays

Today I went for bird photography again after a long pause for I have installed a bird feeder at the hide in the forest. Recently I noticed that besides the great and marsh tits the coal tits and great spotted woodpeckers visit the feeder. These didn't come last winter. So I focused on these species:

Coal Tit

This time I recorded only the male woodpecker:

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Even the jays turned up and reappeared regularly to have some seed. This individual had quite a unique headdress:

Jay

Coal Tit

Jay

Coal Tit

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Coal Tit

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Vekeri Lake: Flaming Pholiota

Today I made a trip to the Vekeri Lake. These spectacular mushrooms grew out from the crevice of a tree. If I have defined it correctly it's a flaming pholiota:

Flaming Pholiota

Mikepércs: Tits at the Bathing Pool

Today morning I was hoping that I would meet the sparrow hawk again for it came for a bath every time I went to the bathing pool recently. But it didn't come this time, only a few tits visited the pool:

Marsh Tit

Mirror mirror tell me ...:

Marsh Tit

Marsh Tit

Marsh Tit

Great Tit

Great Tit

Marsh Tit

Marsh Tit

Mikepércs: Sparrow Hawk in the Icy Water

The morning today has been really cold but it hasn't been freezing. In the village. In the bathing pool however there was a layer of ice about a quater of an inch. After some arrangement I got into the hide and waited. Nothing came for a while then the sparrow hawk appeared suddenly and landed at the side of the pool:

Sparrow Hawk (female)

Sparrow Hawk (female)

Then it walked into the icy water:

Sparrow Hawk (female)

And it even had a bath paying no attention to the cold:

Sparrow Hawk (female)

Sparrow Hawk (female)

Sparrow Hawk (female)

Sparrow Hawk (female)

Arriving at home I found a bug in the garden. I thought it was worth some shots:

Mikepércs: Marsh Tit

I hoped today the bullfinches would visit the bathing pool again but unfortunately they didn't. Only a few marsh tits came for a bath:

Marsh Tit

Marsh Tit

Marsh Tit

Mikepércs: Bullfinches at the Bathing Pool

Recently I heard their sounds very often but haven't seen them. So, this morning to my greatest surprise after having got into the hide the bullfinches appeared suddenly at the bathing pool:

Bullfinch (female)

They had some water and left.
After that a marsh tit came for some water ...:

Marsh Tit

... then the jays arrived:

Jay

Jay

Then the bullfinches returned and this time I could catch the male too:

Bullfinch (male)

Bullfinch (female)

Nowadays whenever I visit the pool a sparrow hawk appears every time. It seems it has got used to this place:

Sparrow Hawk

The jays returned many times as well as the tits:

Jay

The small group of the bullfinches reappeared a few times to have some water but I wasn't able to take other good shots on them. I hope they will come again next time too.

Near the Vekeri Lake: "Only" a Robin

I hoped today morning that there would be a good activity at the drinking pool as there was a fine sunny day. Contrarily only this robin visited the pool on no more than 2 occasions:

Robin

Robin

Near the Vekeri Lake: An Afternoon Trial

Today afternoon I planned a backlight photography. I expected the birds on this hawthorn branch:

Red Hawthorn

They landed on the side of the drinking pool but not on this twig. Jays, robins and marsh tits came to the pool but there hasn't been taken a decent shot of them.

Mikepércs: Blue Tit and Sparrow Hawk

Today morning I visited the bathing pool in the forest again. I was hoping the sparrow hawk would come again.

The first visitors were the jays but I didn't take a good shot of them. Then came a great spotted woodpecker but it didn't settle on a good place and after a few gulps got away. The tits were the following visitors, a blue tit landed as well this time. It's a very nimble bird:

Blue Tit

Blue Tit

Then suddenly the sparrow hawk appeared:

Sparrow Hawk (female)

Sparrow Hawk (female)

She drank a little then flew away at once.