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Showing posts with label Greenfinch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greenfinch. Show all posts

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Mikepércs: Actions Again

I expected actions again for today as it looked like there would be enough light for it.
Early in the morning everything was hoary a bit, but the lights were good already:

Great Tit

The tits start the scenes at once:

Great Tits

It's nice to see the greenfinches coming:

Greenfinch (male)

Greenfinch (male)

The great spotted woodpeckers don't hold off either:

Great Spotted Woodpecker (male)

Then I can hear hawfinches nearby, soon a male appears expelling the feeding sparrows:

Hawfinch and Tree Sparrow

Hawfinch and Tree Sparrow

Then a female is landing as well:

Hawfinch (female)

Hawfinch (male)

The hawfinches don't tolerate the sparrows beside them:

Hawfinch and Tree Sparrow

Hawfinch and Tree Sparrow

One of the sparrows is not frightened at once by the bigger bird, ...:

Hawfinch and Tree Sparrow

... and it flyes away only when the conflict is getting serious:

Hawfinch and Tree Sparrow

The woodpeckers expel the other birds as well when they land to feed:

Great Spotted Woodpecker (male)

The sparrows are tearing each other a bit:

Tree Sparrows

Great Spotted Woodpecker (female)

Scratching:

Tree Sparrow

The sparrows produce most of the scenes:

Tree Sparrows

Tree Sparrows

Tree Sparrows

Tits are just threatening each other, usually their conflict doesn't get serious:

Great Tits

Great Tits

Great Tits

Tree Sparrows

Some tits are not frightened at once by a common sparrow:

Tree Sparrow and Great Tit

Tree Sparrow and Great Tit

Tree Sparrows

The bird which gets too close to the dominant sparrow has to take care of itself:

Tree Sparrow and Blue Tit

Tree Sparrow and Great Tit

Searching everywhere:

Blue Tits

The sailer:

Tree Sparrows

The conflicts are going on:

Tree Sparrows

I manage to catch a few birds while starting:

Tree Sparrow

Great Spotted Woodpecker (male)

Great Tit

Around noontime the sun is shining heavily, so I decide to pack and leave, of course satisfied with the results.

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Mikepércs: Finches

I started for the bathing pool this morning with great hopes. Perhaps the hawfinches will produce some action again.
The first bird that appeared in front of me was a robin. I haven't seen it since autumn:

Robin

Then a chaffinch landed to drink some water:

Chaffinch (male)

Robin

The robin was flying to and fro nearby, they were chasing each other with its couple then they flew farther.

Soon the tree sparrows and the greenfinches appeared. Obviously they didn't tolerate each other's company too much:

Greenfinch and Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Greenfinch (male)

The hawfinches didn't stay away either:

Greenfinch and Hawfinch

Hawfinch and Greenfinch

Greenfinch (male)

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Great Tit

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Start:

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Blue Tit

Blue Tit

The hawfinches were drinking handsomely:

Hawfinch (male)

Hawfinch (male)

Hawfinch (male)

Suddenly I heard sounds of some goldfinches from nearby, one of them was flying around the pool for a few moments but it landed only a few minutes later to have some water:

Goldfinch

I managed to take a flying shot of a hawfinch, of course it isn't perfect:

Hawfinch (male)

Hawfinch (male)

Spring seems to be promising, the number of species that appear at the pool is increasing.