today's pheasant

keeping very still on the principle that if I can't see you, you can't see me

same as last year

same place, same snowdrop but it is so pretty it deserves another page.

drying off

after a refreshing dip there's nothing quite like a good shake of the feathers with one's mates. Three starlings at the bath house.

bird watch afternoon

it has been a busy afternoon with flocks of starlings, wood pigeons, collared doves, sparrows, blue tits, great tits, dunnocks, chaffinches, a cock pheasant, robins, blackbirds, rooks, jackdaws and this shy little coal tit.

puzzle tree

this is an image from the tangled woods, it is not quite what it seems.

stonechat

a stonechat (?) singing away, probably come down from Kit Hill for the winter. The warbling is very liquid and melodic.