Birds on feeder

It was busy on the bird feeders yesterday - here are some stills and also a video as well.

Greenfinch

Lee has fixed the raspberry Pi cam - although the colours are weird it's high def so it's pretty good quality pics - see snapshot above and also video clip below of a Greenfinch. Notice how he (or she!) peels off the outer layer of the sunflower seed and then eats the middle.....let's just hope the camera carries on working :)

More from Bird Cam

Here are a couple more videos from Bird Cam....

There were three greenfinches at the same time just a for a short moment.....and the tiny coal tit has been back a few times as well.

Blimey that's if I could get the videos to upload......blogger was not friends with you tube today so hopefully these actually work!

Return of the Finches!

Well the Greenfinches have been pretty regular visitors to the sunflower seeds, but last week I thought I would switch the peanuts on to bird cam but it turns out hardly anyone visits the peanuts, so after we saw some Goldfinches in the garden on Saturday morning I switched the sunflower seeds back on to bird cam, and it's been like constant traffic ever since - the usual visitors of blue tits, great tits, robins and the greenfinches - but then on top of that it's been finch crazy Goldfinches, Chaffinches and a Siskin. Here are some more videos:

Day of the Finches

So there's me saying oh I've never seen any finches in our garden....or even at all actually.....and earlier on we saw a new bird on the feeder and I think it was a female Bullfinch not 100% sure but it looks the most likely. And then I decided to switch two of the hanging feeders around so that the sunflower seeds are on camera, and almost straight away got a Greenfinch!! No way....I'm amazed I've learnt so much about birds in the last few weeks just never realised there were so many and without the cameras probably wouldn't even know they'd been to the garden....

Here are the videos....

And not to be outdone here is a baby Robin being fed by a parent whilst on the feeder!