Yellowhammers

A walk over at Bradley this morning before going to collect some plants from Allan turned out to be very productive. A pair of Yammers were there and the male flew off with the female but he returned and landed in a tree just above me and sang for half a minute before flying off again -

Auto-focus is great most of the time but when you have branches in the way as I did this morning, you have to go to manual focus and take your chances. I was worried that the bird would take off before I'd changed the camera setting but luckily it stayed long enough to get a few shots.

A pair of Bullfinch were also near-by as were a small flock of Chaffinch, Goldfinch and Lesser Redpoll. A Sparrowhawk overhead was a great sight until the local crows took exception to it and sent it packing.