These are some poor shots of a delightful breakfast time for one of our baby greenfinches, as you can see my camera skills are just about rubbish, the little fella just wouldn't keep his wings still whilst shouting for his brekkie!!!!!

At the same time as the youngster was being fed on the adjacent branch these fella's were helping themselves from the hanging feeder!!!!

I'm starting to get more and more interested in the other fluttery things in our garden just lately, although there aren't that many of them, we have had a couple of visits from the painted lady butterfly but by the time I've got the camera off the tripod they've moved on. We have a few of what I've always called cabbage whites and tons of moths at night. This one landed on our lounge wall last Saturday night and although I'm useless at identification I would be ever so grateful if anyone could identify this little creature. it was very tiny so the picture has been severely cropped, about 1.5 inches across and less than an inch long.

This little Coalie looks very bedraggled this morning but again I was in the right place at the right time, he just hates having is picture taken!!!!

The Bluetits are starting to perk up a bit as far as appearance goes and they will always stay for a mugshot, we seem to have more Bluetits than any other bird so far this year!!!

This sort of action gave me a huge fright last year when I though the poor birds were all dying, this was taken on one of the hotter days in the week, not a very good shot because Mr Blackbird was at the very bottom of the garden and I had the sun in the lens but you can just about see him having a sunbathe. hope he put the factor 30 on!!!!!

Our day for the babies today, the little ones didn't seem to mind the noise from the cement mixer as much as their parents did!!
Isn't this baby Greenfinch just adorable peeping out from our Dwarf Conifer Island. After much coaxing from Mom he/she finally managed to suss out how to feed from the "Wizzle" Buster





Then came the turn of this baby Blackbird who just loved the mealies!!!















And finally we had the visit from the beautiful Baby Bully to have his/her feed, again he/she has just about learnt how to hang from the "Wizzle" buster

Each morning after I've topped up the feeders I always put a handful of sunflower hearts on the niger feeder tray in case the young bullfinch fancies a change from the millet. This cheeky wood pigeon sits and waits most mornings and has his scoff before any other bird can get to it. I've got so used to it now and find it so comical so I guess this tray has become "woodies" own!!!!


The Greenfinches seem a little bit more wary of the builders next door so It was a pleasure to see them back this weekend, builders back again now so I'm guessing our birds will be staying in the trees and bushes until they leave this evening!!!


Whilst training the lens on the feeding Greenfinches I couldn't help but notice how beautiful our tree peony is this year especially when you get in close. OH said "my oh my those petals look just like tissue paper"



First picture not focused correctly but I couldn't resist capturing how many mealies our resident and most dominant blackbird who we call "Jade" can get in his beak at the same time!!!!

And finally one of our delightful Goldfinch pairs, considering we were pulling our hair out at our lack of the finch visits when we first starting feeding the garden birds properly we really aren't doing too badly now. Once the builders have departed for the day they Gold, Chaff and Green finches come in at least three pairs.

Right place at the exact right time this morning !! This is who I believe to be our new baby Bullfinch, I'm OK with identifying these baby birds when the parents are feeding but when they become a little bit more independent I struggle a bit (still fairly new to the baby bits). Could someone correct me if my ID is incorrect - Thank you

Incidentally he/she is feeding from the millet spray that I put there quite some time ago the other birds just ignore it!!!

This fellow is still coming back and forth this shot was taken on the nearest fairy cake feeder to the house, his youngster was hanging about with Mom on the lower fairy cake feeder, just a tad too far to get a decent shot

Couple of shots of again in my inexperience of what I believe is a juvenile Goldfinch.