window birding

The best kind of birding in my opinion is from your window. Low effort, but everything you see is always a surprise. You don't really expect much more than a few starlings, a noisy woodpigeon and the odd robin, so I find pretty much anything in my garden to be hugely entertaining.

Take this little guy:


One of those WOODPECKERWOODPECKERWOODPECKER *runs upstairs and scrabbles for camera then dashes to nearest window* moments. They're pretty awesome looking things really, especially when they turn up in unexpected places.

Then this week there was this:


(credits for this go to my mum as I don't get to see our garden in daylight until the weekend...)

Now all I need is a lesser and I have the full compliment of British piciformes (ignoring wrynecks)...