Bully by name and by nature
07th January 2020
Over the festive holidays bullfinches have been gathering in the silver birch on my lawn resembling christmas tree baubles and basically brightening up the dullest of days.
The males are now looking their best, sporting their seasonal best pink wardrobe and shadowing the also rather glamorous but slightly less vibrant female of choice.
They are however very bullish in nature, shooing off any other bird on the feeders.As one of the largest size finches they don't stand any nonsense and use their colour and size to their best advantage. Eating with their beaks crammed full often with several black sunflower seeds at a time they don't possess the same table manners as one may have wished for.
They also are not natural posers so it's taken a while to get a few on of these images together.
The males are now looking their best, sporting their seasonal best pink wardrobe and shadowing the also rather glamorous but slightly less vibrant female of choice.
They are however very bullish in nature, shooing off any other bird on the feeders.As one of the largest size finches they don't stand any nonsense and use their colour and size to their best advantage. Eating with their beaks crammed full often with several black sunflower seeds at a time they don't possess the same table manners as one may have wished for.
They also are not natural posers so it's taken a while to get a few on of these images together.