Mikepércs: European Serin

I was able to enjoy another busy morning:

Hawfinch (female)

Hawfinch (male)

Blue Tit

Blue Tit

I enjoyed for a new species: european serins landed to drink:

European Serin (female)

European Serin (male)

European Serin (female)

Csilp-csalp füzike

Vörösbegy

Vörösbegy

European Serin (male)

Goldfinch

Mikepércs: Goldcrest

I have barely set up my equipment when a goldcrest appeared at the pool starting a good bath. Unfortunately I didn't manage to take a decent photo before it left. But soon a chiffchaff landed:

Csilp-csalp füzike

Chiffchaff

Chiffchaff

Later the goldcrest appeared again, this time it chose a better place:

Goldcrest

Goldcrest

Mikepércs: The Activity Continues At The Pool

The photos taken last time at the pool made me happy, so I'm sitting in the hide this morning again. And the birds don't let me down this time either:

Spotted Flycatcher

Young Hawfinch

Nuthatch

Starling

Starling

Young Hawfinch

Young Hawfinch

Starling

Blackcap and Chaffinch

Great Tit and Chaffinch

Great Tit and Chaffinch

Blackcap (male)

Chiffchaff

Chiffchaff

Hawfinch (male)

Nuthatch

Mikepércs: Backlight

 

The sunlight is strong this morning. I'm trying to catch some interesting moments of the quick moving chiffchaff at the pool:

Chiffchaff

Chiffchaff

Chiffchaff

Chiffchaff

Blackcaps, tits and chaffinches come to have a bath as well, later a song thrush appears too:

Song Thrush

Mikepércs: Chiffchaff

It's a sunny morning. I'm struggling with the strong light. The birds are coming to have a bath one after the other: spotted flycatcher, jay, ...:

Jay

... starlings, ...:

Starling

... blackcaps, then a chiffchaff has a long bath, shaking off the water from itself on the landing twig nearby after that, then returns to the pool:

Chiffchaff

Chiffchaff

Chiffchaff

It's repeating this procedure again.

Fortunately there are soft lights as well:

Great Tit

Blackcap

Green Woodpecker Again

My last week photography wasn't very successful so I was very curious about this morning.

I have to wait long today for the birds to appear however the lights are fine. 9 o'clock has past when a green woodpecker lands on the side of the pool and starts drinking. This time the female:

Green Woodpecker (female)

Then starts to investigate the mossy log:

Green Woodpecker (female)

Green Woodpecker (female)

The spotted flycatcher appears again at the end of the pool. Another bird wants to land too, that's why the flycatcher's opens its beak:

Spotted Flycatcher

Soon I can hear hawfinches, one of them lands and starts bathing:

Hawfinch (male)

So does this chiffchaff, ...:

Chiffchaff

... followed by a great spotted woodpecker:

Great Spotted Woodpecker (female)

Then comes a surprise: a green lizard's head appears at the end of the pool covered by flocks of cottonwood:

Green Lizard

 It's putting out the tongue for a while then it disappears at once as soon as a jay lands on the log nearby.