Wednesday, 16 March 2016

STANTON - OH THOSE ELUSIVE JAYS!

Stopped off at Stanton park this afternoon; after a quick walk round the near-empty lake, I sat down to watch the bird table.  It was frequented by a  number of species, including blue tits, great tits, coal tits and long tailed tits, together with nuthatch and robin, but although I saw four jays at one time,, none of them visited the bird table, although some were tantalisingly close!  There's always next time....
male chaffinch

coal tit

long tailed tit


those tantalising jays!


female chaffinch

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