Invitations Church Ceremony

I entitled to this entry waiting because it is often seen as more things in the bush. While still life follows its normal course around us, just have to have a little patience and observation. I have visited the feeder that I have prepared for birds this winter and learned a lot in the long waits at the hide.
We can see the relationships between different species at feeding time. Who dominates whom, who eats first ... We can also compare different individuals' confidence and although we know that species within the same species every individual is different.
The truth is that this year several species down to the feeder. Are fairly typical but not be underestimated. Tits group of regularly visiting the feeder a couple of tits and a tit. A copy of this second is very suspicious and made test flights over the trough before deciding to settle, but his partner is quite confident.

tit (Parus major )

tit (Parus cristatus )

As you can see, next to the tit is a stool, probably a squirrel, but that's another story to tell later. Following
birds also a pair of nuthatches feed quietly in front of the hide. They are quite aggressive with other species and have control of the situation. The specimen photography is a male as indicated by the dark ocher under their wings.

nuthatch (Sitta europaea )

also a robin, confident as ever, has chosen the trough to carry the winter best if you have not seen you around. The copy of the picture occasionally landed just below the camera lens at 30 cm from my face.

Robin (Erithacus rubecuola )

also enter a couple of common grackles to which I have not photographed as the distrust dela species requires more time to get used to the noise of the camera shutter.
These are the species that I observed directly into the feeder while I was there. But there are other species that roam the trough without getting directly. A swamp coal feeds in the buds of the birch trees around. A flock of finches are quite important as well and also feed on the ground. I had always seen roosting in this species fed the highest branches of birch or rowan fruits of the soil but rarely. However, from the hide I saw the feed side as if a flock of finches, walking quietly among the leaves of birch.

Macho common bullfinch (Pyrrhula Pyrrhula ) Hanging around the feeder
jays
ones when armed riot around. The hawk in the area raises the alarmed birds from time to time. Short-toed Treecreeper also search for food among the birches lichens. They basically insectivorous looking at small spiders and mosquitoes that lie between Evernia and Usnea . This spec seems much more timid than the nuthatch, despite the similarities in their lifestyle. Always seek the opposite side of the tree to which you find yourself.

Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla )

and coal tit garrpinos also sing in the vicinity along with the myths, but do not dare to come forward.
We now turn to the mammalian subject. In the days that the snow was around the hide was easy to see the tracks of foxes, wild boars, deer, small mammals, squirrels ... I saw Fox in the summer roaming the area and the deer I see or hear almost every day I'm waiting. With the squirrel
I was surprised the other day. Almost always see in the way of ascent to hide by jumping from an oak tree to another or still monitoring the situation. But the other day had about 20 minutes in the hide when I see a power move in a birch. It was the squirrel that chewed the tips of birch branches fine on it. I followed his movements for a while and soon saw ina saved in that tangle of birch branches. Spent 2 hours until the dough left so I did think it could be the squirrel's nest. A real surprise as he had seen many potential squirrel nests but never with such visual observation. Then upload a photo of the squirrel in the vicinity of the nest.

squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris ). In the lower left corner you can see the possible nest in which the squirrel was about 2 hours.

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