Soggy Birds

A day of persistent rain usually results in a garden full of activity and today was no exception! The rain brought the birds in from the nearby wood - at one point we had 65 Chaffinch alone. There was a great mixture of species throughout the day; Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, House Sparrow, Starling, Blackbird, Siskin, Brambling, Black-headed Gull, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, and Robin all put in an appearance today. Twelve species were recorded as being in the garden at the same time (that was everything other than the gull and the corvids).

The following photographs were taken through the kitchen window:

Soggy but still beautiful - Goldfinch




Soggy Starling

Soggy Blue Tit

Very soggy and sorry looking Greenfinch

And the soggiest of them all - Siskin.