European Gardening: BIRDS IN THE GARDEN, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Would you know it! I saw a magpie the next day alight in a tree for a quick gander!

I have had some chaffinches on the freshly cut moss-grass lately, coming every day, the female just plods around without a care. I haven't seen them regularly before, only a glimpse, that was the other bird on the rhododendron.

I have been taking pics on the zoom through the window, it comes quite close. It is so sweet, nick-named Orville due to that bottom. I think there are 2 different females, another I took from the front window looks less patterned on the wings. The male flitted onto a low branch over the water yesterday, saw him again today land on the grass with the female and got both in the same shot, not downloaded yet.