Mikepércs: New Year's Day Photography

It's new year's day. Going to a morning photography at this time is special because there's nobody on the streets of the village, everyone is sleeping at this hour. The birds don't!

The morning is very cloudy, so I can only get photos of the motionless birds:

Marsh Tit

Marsh Tit

Great Spotted Woodpecker (male)

Great Spotted Woodpecker (male)

I catch sight of a female brambling on the ground. It lands after a while on the landing branch, ...:

Brambling (female)

... but having not found anything, it flies away.

Great Tit

The nuthatches appear as well:

Nuthatch

Great Tit

Blue Tit

Nuthatch

Blue Tit

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

In silence, as usual, a pheasant cock walks in too, and having found the seeds behind the pool starts to pick them up. When I try to photograph him he raises his head, ...:

Peasant Cock

Peasant Cock

... but as he doesn't notice anything special, goes on feeding. When finished walks off in silence.

Mikepércs: Some Snow

It's been snowing during the night. Though it's winter, the photos with snow are becoming special nowadays.

Great Spotted Woodpecker (male)

Great Spotted Woodpecker (male)

Marsh Tit

Nuthatch

The pheasant cock appears this time again, however as soon as he climbs a branch that tips under his weight, he becomes frightened and retires. But his hunger overcomes his fear and he returns to the seeds:

Pheasant Cock

What a neck:

Blue Tit

A hawfinch lands, ...:

Hawfinch

... then to my great surprise a small flock of yellowhammers. Two of them rushes across the frozen pool, but unfortunately I'm not able to take a decent shot of them.

Great Tit

Nuthatch

Nuthatch

In the end a male blackbird comes to the pool to have look round:

Blackbird (male)

Mikepércs: In Backlight Again

I was satisfied with my last week's results, so I stayed on the same place today.

The rails appear quite early, but the first photos of them are not too successful. As soon as the sun rises a snipe rushes in front of the hide:

Common Snipe

The starlings land on the drying pondbed in flocks again:

Starling

Soon two young pheasants appear:

Young Pheasant

Young Pheasant

The young rails come out of the reed regularly to search among the vegetation:

Water Rail

Water Rail

The pheasants appear again:

Young Pheasant

A young lapwing spends long minutes to rest nearby:

Young Lapwing

Young Lapwing

The wood pigeons and the turtle doves are perching on the bushes nearby but sometimes they are landing near the remaining water to drink. One of them comes quite close this time:

Turtle Dove

I managed to catch a young specimen as well:

Young Turtle Dove

Some Action

I expected some sunshine for today, but I got some frost in the morning.
While dealing with the window heating in the hide, half inside and half outside, a sparrow-hawk strikes in among the small birds. If it has been successful or not I don't know as I could hardly see it.
The photography starts with the tits, but the sparrows are nearby too.

Marsh Tit

The jarrings come next:

Blue Tit And Great Tit

Tree Sparrow And Great Tit

Great Tits

I can notice a few chaffinches, moreover a few bramblings too. Of course they don't step on the "stage".
A pheasant cock walks under the feeder to pick up the seeds, but leaves shortly.

It appears again, this time it's interested in the frozen pool where the small birds are coming and going. With a light jump it appears on the pool, here I can take a portrait:

Pheasant

Mikepércs: Winter Begins

I started feeding the birds a week ago at the usual place, and this morning I want to see the results and of course I want to do some photography.

Soon after I placed the landing branch the flock of tits are coming:

Great Tit

Great Tits

Blue Tit

Marsh Tit

Suddenly a pheasant cock is walking near my hide in silence, but I know he's sneaking to the feeder to pick up the fallen seeds. After some time he's coming back with interest to the frozen drinking pool where I have placed the seeds and with a light jump he's on top of the pool. I haven't placed too much seed and what I've placed it's gone by this time, so my pheasant is unlucky as he can't find anything:

Pheasant

However he tries the little blue berries of my landing branch! He doesn't like it so he leaves.
As soon as I've placed some food again the tits are back:

Great Tit

Marsh Tit

Great Tit

Blue Tit

The jays appear as well, they come for the sunflower seed one after the other. For my greatest pleasure one of them is even jumping on my branch:

Jay

"Are you staring at me?":

Jay

"Are you really staring at me?"

Jay