EXTRA-ORDINARY

Not a lot of time for photography today, so I nipped out to the garden where there is normally frenetic activity around the feeders and on the ground underneath, not to mention what is passing overhead. We can have eight or nine species feeding regularly within the garden, with an odd bit of exotica like a woodpecker. Today, the garden was silent, even the noisy rocks were nowhere to be seen. Then out of a conifer in our neighbouring churchyard fly the explanation - a sparrow hawk. A few moments later the little birds started to appear again and this little coal tit was the first - so I felt he deserved a place in the blipfolio. Not even the tiniest, most common garden bird is ordinary. I love how you can see the seed held firmly in his beak.