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February last year - first RNP to visit my garden, a male... January this year - the next RNP to visit my garden, a female. Through the double glazing and poor light.

Violet Cuckoo, female

She was yacking a lot too, although this shot caught her just between quacks. I guess she was telling me to head on. It was time to get moving if I was to make it to the reunion dinner in time.

Crimson Sunbird, female

Female - Rusty-breasted Whistler, Indonesian Kancilan Emas (Pachycephala pectoralis fulvotincta) Location : Kuwu, Desa Nenu, Kecamatan Cibal, Manggarai Regency - Flores island, Indonesia

Brown-throated Sunbird, female

This lady seemed to prefer a different feeder - rather a nice shape, isn't it. TTTW Snowing here this morning and it brought in a nice garden visitor.... my first Fieldfare of the winter. Not sure the pictures will be any good, as he was rather obscured by twigs. Will have to see.

Goodness, what a lot of different poses this lady gave me, it was so difficult to make a choice. I decided on this one in the end as it was a little different. Hope you like it. TTTW

Female Cardinal perched in a tree, just displaying her fine feathers. And, as you can see, they are quite fine!

The first bird up on the feeders was this lady!! And the first picture was the only clear one I got of her in this batch... she did come back again, but I've not looked at those images as yet. TTTW

Unfortunately no photo of a male as this one bird of that species was the only one among many Scarlet Minivet of both sexes.

I've pixelated the gory bits... through the double glazing etc This pose is one of the "Stay away!" poses that is aimed at a Squirrel - makes them look dragon-like to me. I'll upload more of these poses as I process the images Camera Maker: SONY Camera Model: SLT-A58 Lens: 75-300mm F4.5-5.6...

I took a couple of thousand pics of this young female (size and behaviour suggests female) yesterday, but some will be too graphic for most of you - I'll try and blur the face of the Starling in a few that show behaviour. This one should be fine, as not much of the prey left. Oh, notice there's...

Female Northern Harrier, reddish breast.

One of the few times it came out of the long grass

A redstart can be found in many of Europe's gardens, but is not that easy to see, as it spends most time in bushes and shrubs. A female, like this one, is very discreetly coloured, while the males eventually get a dark red breast, and black throat, and ditto chin, areas, and a grey head and...