Author: David

Last year’s fruit and this year’s catkins hanging from the same branches back on New Year’s Day.

This little grebe paused to give its feathers a good cleaning after swimming in convoy with a couple of mallards (below).

This magpie’s haughty retreat gives a view of the rich iridescence of feathers which normally appear black.

A robin uses one bird feeder as a perch for its approach to the other feeder.

Thanks to reliable bird feeders, this male blackbird has kept well fed through the recent hard spell.

A member of the thrush family which flies south to Britain for the easier living in the winter.

Fieldfares normally come into urban areas only when conditions get harsh – here to feast on a rotting apple left out for birds. Understandably, the bird was more concerned with eating than with showing itself off at a good angle.