New Year Hawfinches - St Helen's Church
I've been away over the New Year so today was my first chance to have a look at the Hawfinches at St Helen's Church. Whilst away it looks like the numbers have generally been around 20 but in the last few years there have been counts of up to 30.
There feeding behaviour appears to have changed since December, they now look to be spending more time on the outside of the Yews making them a little easier to see and photograph. It looked to me as if they are now eating fresh shoots rather than the berries, which look to have largely disappeared, which might be an explanation for this.
The photos below are all males and show the strange spatulate tips to the inner 5 primaries.
Aside from the Hawfinches I think it's been fairly quiet for birds locally over Christmas/ New Year.
There feeding behaviour appears to have changed since December, they now look to be spending more time on the outside of the Yews making them a little easier to see and photograph. It looked to me as if they are now eating fresh shoots rather than the berries, which look to have largely disappeared, which might be an explanation for this.
The photos below are all males and show the strange spatulate tips to the inner 5 primaries.
Aside from the Hawfinches I think it's been fairly quiet for birds locally over Christmas/ New Year.
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