More garden birds

Andy M photographed a few more of the birds visiting his garden this week.

Male Lesser Redpoll - with red crown and breast patches

Male Lesser Redpoll 

Stock Dove

with lovely iridescent green and purple neck patch 

Blue Tit - doing a little light renovation to the nestbox, 

pecking at the entrance hole to remove rough edges

Buzzard - gliding overhead

Buzzard 

Carrion Crow

has started building a nest in the oak tree at the end of the garden

Male Reed Bunting

Male Reed Bunting

Female Reed Bunting -

this one with the more typical brown cheek patch

A feeder-full of Siskin.  Larger numbers visited this week - up to 12 one day.

This group are all females.

A male (left) and female (right) Siskin

Male Siskin

Young male Siskin