Mike’s Photo Blog: Yesterdays Birds (the ones I managed to photograph).

The forecast rain did actually arrive so Ive been going through the photos I took yesterday. The ones I took in the early morning with the sun in my lens I didn't bother with. As I mentioned in my teaser preview post of yesterday there were loads of birds around in the morning following a huge push of overnight migrants. Here's a few of them that Merlin heard:-

It wasn't until around 3PM that I got out again as I was doing 'stuff' in the yard and shopping etc, the afternoon light is better as the sun is over my right shoulder at that time anyway.

The Robin horde has thinned out a little but there's still a lot of squawking as they sort out their territorial boundaries leaving the waterfall as semi neutral territory. The Catbirds are just as bad, I have no idea just how many there are but at least 6 birds I reckon. Theres a lot of Grackles too but they are much more passive and come down for communal bathing. Unfortunately the Warblers had mostly moved on by the afternoon but I did see one or two during my afternoon and evening session interrupted only by coming inside to make dinner. I stayed out until 7:30 ish hoping the shyer Thrushes would coming for a bathe but the light was fading fast so I came in and called it a day