Christine's walking & birds blog

Catching sight of a white rump from the kitchen, I thought we had a wheatear in the garden! But it was this male bullfinch, carrying food. The photo was taken hastily through the window, and unfortunately couldn't be cropped to leave out our poor old shed which badly needs a new roof. And a new door come to that. And new walls.

We've been out to Combe today, and hopes were high on arrival as two or three wheatears flew away from the car park. But we couldn't relocate them and it proved fairly quiet birdwise. I was nearly defeated by the strong wind and we were both unusually tired afterwards.

Best birds were a raven, a bullfinch, and a garden warbler which sang and showed itself briefly at the top of Sheepless Hill.