Christine's walking & birds blog

Back home, I thought that one of the chaffinches in the distant ash tree could actually be a brambling - a poor pic confirms this.

Earlier, a flock of perhaps six birds flying around alighted briefly at the top of our cypress, and I got a couple of pictures through the not-very-clean window. I was surprised to see that they were redpolls as they'd looked too big; but I was also happy to see them as they're my first for a long time. 

I'm not suggesting they're anything other than lesser redpolls - but I'll be watching out for them tomorrow, hoping for longer and closer views.