Female house sparrows feeding on a fatball feeder on a freezing cold day. This was my first try at filming and editing in portrait format using a mobile phone.
I thought I’d left my setup well away from the birds’ perches and flight paths, but events proved me wrong. Usually, the feeder attracts a few titmice, an occasional dunnock, but mostly a mob of sparrows jostling for access. The brief bursts of activity recorded here were the only events in a half hour which was much quieter than normal.