Moments From Nature's Secrets

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Mikepércs: The Ice Has Been Broken

I started for the pool this morning in a thick fog. According to the recent weeks' experience I could only expect jays at the pool.
On my way I stopped for a dewy cobweb photography:


There's still thick fog when I get into the hide. And there's not much light. Soon I notice a small brown bird near the pool: it's a sparrow. Tree sparrows used to come regularly last year, but this is a house sparrow! I've never seen it near a bathing pool. After a while it gets onto the side of the pool, so I can photograph it:

House Sparrow (female)

Soon the great tits appear as well:

Great Tit

Great Tit

Great Tit

Great Tit

Great Tit

The sparrow meanwhile pops up here and there around the pool:

House Sparrow (female)

Soon the jays appear too:

Jay

Jay

House Sparrow (female)

Great Tit

Jay

Jay

Among the birds' voices I can discover the fieldfare's too. I used to hear it regularly, but this time they are closer. But look! One of them is perching on the bush nearby! There's no use taking photos of it because of the many twigs around it. I hope it would land on the pool. It's sitting in the bush for a while then it lands on one side of the pool:

Fieldfare

But the others are coming too:

Fieldfare

Fieldfare

Fieldfare

Fieldfare

Jay at the end of the pool, fieldfares on one side, and young blackbirds are arriving as well (which I don't pay much attention now)! And this is still not enough: I discover a redwing near the pool! (I haven't even seen this species yet.) Only it's not on the right place photographically. Never mind, after drinking a bit it lands on the branch placed for the jays before it flies away:

Redwing

Great Tit

Then I can hear hawfinches, which are landing on the pool as well for a short time:

Hawfinch

That's great! In these minutes more birds have come to the pool than in the last few months altogether!
A jay has come again to the water:

Jay

Jay

It seems this jay doesn't like the little red plant among the moss:

Jay

I'm afraid it has weeded it out, it looked so nice there :(
I'm still waiting for a long time hoping the fieldfares or the redwings would return...
Meanwhile the tits are coming regularly.
I can hear the voices of robins and wrens but they don't come close exept this wren, which is perching on a wild rose stem for a few moments. I can take a shot of it before I finish photography for today:

Wren



Well ... the fieldfares and the redwing have been a surprise for today. It's a long time I've had such a nice experience. I have to state that foggy mornings very often bring some pleasant surprise.

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