Today after a few days of little bird activity in the garden there was quite a substantial number of feather visitors. We finally saw quite few greenfinches on the feeding wall and the feeder as well as jays, robins (which we hadn't seen for a while) black birds, magpie, the jackdaws...still, sparrows, etc and of ourse our what now it seems permanent garden resident the very loud male chaffinch. This one is becoming more and more one of the most vocal birds I've ever seen or heard since he seems to be singing/teeting/chirping non stop, allday, which makes you wonder how a little thing like that can be that vocal and loud all day without getting tired or getting a sore throat.

Although I'm not an expert on bed behaviour, I find it fascinating that birds like other known for being intelligent animals seem to be able to learn fairly quickly where there is food, who seems to provide them with food and in the case of this particularly chaffinch how to get the food from us when there isn't any left outside. On Thursday morning he was walking on the empty feeding wall after the night's downpour had washed away what ever bird food was left from the previous day and tweeting at the top of his voice till I finally got out and put some food on the wall.

This morning he appeared on the window sill hopping and chirping loudly till my other half got out and added some more food on the wall. Every day he seems to becoming cheekier, bravier and louder. Still he is very cute and more welcome than those jackdaws although I have a soft spot for one of them, the pirate one, the one who walks and hops on one leg. Unfortunately he never seems to come alone and the others will follow and cause havoc but I guess the fact that they are not coming as often is at least some kind of improvement.


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