Tuesday 12 December 2017

Winter Garden Visitors

Yesterday a Stoat spent half an hour in the garden.  It seemed interested in a squirrel, but wasn't able to deal the death blow.  The rest of the time it ran around on the lawn.  It jumped down a hole and popped up another.  We've had a female Brambling for over a fortnight, and the flock of local Long-tailed Tits passes through the garden from time to time.  Meanwhile even the Blue Tit looks good among the reddening cotoneaster leaves.  Unfortunately, all these photos were taken through glass sometimes on very overcast days.
Up Pops the Stoat
 Ditto
 Licking its lips

 Down it Goes
 Having a Good Look
 Ditto
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 Emerging
 Full Length
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 Climbing out the Largest Hole
 Forcing itself out the Smallest Hole
 More Lip-licking
 Female Brambling 
 Ditto
 Goldcrest
 Ditto
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 Goldfinch
 Long-tailed Tit
 Ditto
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 Blue Tit
 Ditto

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice shots - love the Goldcrest 👍🏽👍🏽

Hugh Wood said...

Nice shots - love the Goldcrest 👍🏽👍🏽 (not a crib off anonymous - it was me !!)

Chris Cox said...

What a great experience to have all those in your garden at the same time - especially the stoat. Great pics despite the glass.