Ten minutes in the afternoon of 13th November 2017

Just a few minutes on a November afternoon looking out of our lounge window at the birds, with camera in hand.

An infrequent visitor to our patch, a Great Spotted Woodpecker. It's a male as evidenced by the red nape.

 

A female Great Spotted Woodpecker (no red nape), an even less frequent visitor than the male. This shot, like some of the others, is obscured by the glass of the window.

We've been seeing Grey Herons quite a lot recently and they've taken to wandering around the field at the back of us, presumably looking for worms.

When they take off, the breadth of their wingspan becomes evident. It's got to be at least 10 foot across.

A glimpse of a Long Tailed Tit. There are lots of them around us but very few come into our garden.

But Blue Tits do.



This male Pheasant has been hanging around for a few days, pecking up the seeds that drop from our feeders.



A not-so-common House Sparrow. But their numbers are increasing from what they have been in the recent past.

 

Most numerous today were the Great Tits. Acrobatic and very active.