Enjoying breakfast

This little siskin and female chaffinch were enjoying their breakfast before I went to work this morning. At the moment, I am having to fill all the feeders every day. As you can see, this one is nearly empty and I took this before filling it up

[Martin]

Lovely shot wish I could get siskin in our garden, only get the odd chaffinch, they are all one garden down, should not moan though had a wonderfull song thrush on the bird table past three days

[Mair]

Nice change to see a siskin! We had a couple last week too.

[Rosie Kind]

@esox @mejbronant We seem to have a few coming now. I just liked the fact that the sisking was sharing the feeder with a chaffinch as only a few minutes earlier, there had been 3 siskin on the feeder.

[carol white]

A beautiful capture!!

[Judith Greenwood]

You get great variety - our feeders are quiet since the snow went but I'm sure as the breeding season picks up they'll be popular again.

[Rosie Kind]

@carolmw Thanks Carol
@judithg Yes they'll be back to keep themselves going while they feed their babies. It's a lovely time of year and I hope we get lots of nests and babies again

[Jo]

Another lovely shot, the focus is just perfect, what lens are you using? Perhaps you can tell we what I'm doing wrong, I haven't managed to attract any wildlife onto my bird feeders, it's soooo frustrating!

[Christine]

Lovely

[Judith Johnson]

Terrific shot Rosie. My garden birds are eating the fat balls and snacks on the bird table, but the seed feeders aren't going down very much at all. I can picture your garden now - thanks for showing me round this afternoon.

[Janet]

You are so lucky getting siskins. I have never seen one!

[Ann]

Wonderful shot ! I did a double take because it looked like our goldfinches,although, one in winter plumage and one in summer plumage . : )

[Frank Hymus]

Great double bird shot.

[🐓 Patricia Fletcher]

Fabulous capture!

[Rosie Kind]

@jo13 My camera is a Nikon Coolpix P510 which has 42 x optical zoom and will take anything from 4.3 to 180mm F1.3-5.9. It's incredibly versatile

[Rosie Kind]

@jo13 Jo I also have lots of different food for the birds - sunflower hearts, nyjer seed, suet balls, peanuts, mealworms, dried fruit - raisins, etc. and suet pellets of differing flavours. It costs me a fortune by I love watching the birds. This one however, was taken along the cycle track

[Rosie Kind]

@busylady It was a pleasure Judith. Sometimes the birds take a while to get used to knowing that there is seed in the feeders but I'm sure they will come to yours soon

[Jo]

@rosiekind Thanks for that Rosie, I shall give it all a try, I can see them in my neighbours garden, but they just haven't spotted that there are all sorts of goodies in my garden!!