greenfinch carduelis chloris

Enjoying the last few days of freedom before I begin work on Monday.

When the females showed no interest there was nothing left to do but attack them and drive them off. Such romantics.

I have my own Saturday fun pictures to post for once. This is romance Greenfinch style. The males were suffering from an excess of hormones and the ones who hadn't yet found a partner were desperately displaying to the females on the feeders.

A brief return to wintry weather at the end of April.

A great deal of catching up to do at work after last week's conferences but now we're starting to plan for next week's Easter break in the far south of Sweden and I'm really looking forward to the trip. I hope to see lots of birds and take loads of pictures.

Fully recovered from last week's conferences and looking forward to our annual Easter visit to the south of Sweden beginning on Friday morning.

No snow at this point (3rd January) but It looks like winter nevertheless I reckon.

We had a marvellous time at Lake Tkern and I got some good pictures. My only regret is that we didn't bother to take any sun tan lotion as my face got burned yesterday. We borrowed a rowing boat and got out past the reed beds to the lake itself. We saw birds we wouldn't have seen otherwise and...