#wildlifescotland — Public Fediverse posts

One of three baby jays that have started visiting our bird feeder this summer.

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Snow didn't stop our usual pheasant from completing his rounds, here he is after checking the first feeder, now striding off to check at the back of the house. The low winter sun helped to reveal his amazing colours.

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The jays usually stay up in the cover of trees but sometimes they are tempted down to our feeder and we are treated to a brief glimpse. The jay (garrulus glandarius) is one of the most colourful of the corvids (crow family) with its distinctive blue feathers, they like acorns so are at home here amongst our oak trees.

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A woodpecker is always a delight to see. This greater spotted woodpecker (dendrocopos major) looks to be a female and is one of our regulars but is hard to spot in the trees, the little patch of red helps.
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Another of our small visitors, this little dash of colour is a yellowhammer (emberiza citrinella), here perched on a fence wire near our bird feeder.
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