Mikepércs: After Sleety Rain

I've been waiting for some snow but the new year has only brought some sleety rain so far. The thuja branch placed in front of my hide has been covered completely by ice.

I manage to attract the birds on this branch with some food:

Tree sparrow

Tree sparrow

Tree sparrow

Tree sparrow

For my delight a coal tit is also a regular guest at the feeder:

Coal Tit

Coal Tit

Tree sparrow

Blue Tit

Great Tit

As the sun rises higher, the ice is melting quickly:

Great Tit

Upside down:

Great Tit

Later I'm making attempts to catch some action, but with not a lot of success:

Blue Tit and Great Tit

Mikepércs: Tits on Pussy Willows

According to weather forecast it was to be raining today, so I was very happy to wake up for a more or less sunny morning. I was hoping to catch the bramblings today which appeared several times recently under the feeder picking seeds there but I haven't been prepared for this until now. This time however I set the table for them using nice green moss. One of them did land there but before it could settle down on a good place came a regular woodpecker and bundled it off. And the brambling didn't return any more. So the tits remained for me. But I like them, they are the birds that you can always count on:

Coal Tit

Marsh Tit

Marsh Tit

The little spitfire:

Marsh Tit

Marsh Tit

Coal Tit

And the regular woody:

Great Spotted Woodpecker (female)

Mikepércs: Birds in Snowing

When I woke up today morning it was snowing. I would have liked for long to take photos in snowing. This has happened today. Beside the usual tits any woodpeckers a few bramblings came to have some food from the ground but I didn't manage to take shots of them. On the other hand I managed to record the only blue tit that is visiting the feeder:

Blue Tit

Great Spotted Woodpecker (male)

Great Tit and Coal Tit

Coal Tit

Great Tit

Marsh Tit

Some forest feeling:

Great Tits

Great Tit

Great Spotted Woodpecker (female)

Great Tits

Mikepércs: Sunlight at last

Today I visited the feeder again. I was hoping that the finches would pay a visit because last time the bramblings appeared around the feeder, they were picking the seeds that fell down. On the other hand only the tits and the woodpeckers visited the feeder this time too. And fair shots were taken only of the tits but this time the good lights were on my side:

Great Tits

Marsh Tit

Great Tit and Coal Tit

Coal Tit

Mikepércs: Tits in Rain - Instead of Snow

I was hoping today I could record the birds while snowing. On my way to the feeder it started snowing so I kept on hoping, but soon it stopped and when I got into the hide it started raining. This didn't seem to hold them from coming continously to the feeder:

Coal Tit

Some colour in the greyness:

Great Tit

Marsh Tit

Coal Tit and Marsh Tit

Coal Tit

Coal Tit

Mikepércs: Some Tit Action

Being a fine, sunny day, today I went for action shots at the feeder. The tits were very busy with feeding themselves, sometimes disagreements took place:

Great Tit

The other morning I found a frozen sparrow under the bird feeder at home, so I took it with me today to see if something interesting would happen if I put it on a visible place on the snow. After some time a jay observed it, pecked it a few times then seeing no signs of life from the sparrow picked it up and flew away:

Jay

"Do you want a bite, buddy?" That's as much as to say the great tit to the coal tit:

Great Tit and Coal Tit

Coal Tit

Sometimes the marsh tits are not friendly either:

Great Tit and Marsh Tit

The coal tits can be brave as well:

Great Tit and Coal Tit

The female great spotted woodpecker turned up this time too:

Great Spotted Woodpecker (female)

Then the male:

Great Spotted Woodpecker (male)

Mikepércs: Tits and Woodpeckers Again

Firstly, I wish a Happy New Year to all my readers.

The cold and the hoarfrost stayed for New Year's Eve and myself visited the feeder again where I met the same birds as yesterday. The great spotted woodpeckers ...:

Great Spotted Woodpecker (male)

Great Spotted Woodpecker (male)

... and the tits among which sometimes some kind of disaggreement took place. Here, for example a deadlock occured for a moment, but in the next moment both sides went for his food:

Great Tit and Coal Tit

Coal Tit