21/12/2020 Wishing everyone a very happy Christmas and a much improved 2021.

Apologies for the lack of posts but the WiFi is on a serious go slow and my patience can not cope!

I have picked one photo from each month of 2020 to say Happy Christmas with and hopefully bring a bit of cheer.

20/01/2020 Bluetit on the windowsill. (Cyanistes caeruleus).

15/02/2020 Common cranes (Grus grus) migrating back to the North.  We are so lucky to see them twice a year.

16/03/2020 Blackbird male (Turdus merula) being bombed by a House Sparrow male (Passer domesticus).

16/04/2020 Blackbird female or possibly a youngster (Turdus merula).

12/05/20 European greenfinch (Chloris chloris).

10/06/2020 little owl (Athene noctua), they have been very visible this year.  Although I have not actually seen then for a couple of months now, I hear them calling each other most evenings but it is too dark to see exactly where they are, certainly on a nearby barn, possibly even our own.

26/07/2020 Black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) taking a bath.

22/08/2020 House Sparrows having fun in the water (Passer domesticus).

21/09/2020 Great tit (Parus major) probably complaining as all the other birds have splashed out all the water.

09/10/2020 Grey Partridge in the garden (Perdix perdix). A once in a lifetime visit I think!

12/11/2020 Woodlark (Lullula arborea). Seen out on one of my walks.

16/12/2020 the Christmas Robin in our garden (Erithacus rubecula).

 Happy Christmas

Gesëende Kersfees

Nginifisela inhlanhla ne mpumelelo e nyakeni

Nadolig Llawen

Nollaig Shona Dhuit

Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ur

Buone Feste Natalizie

Feliz Natal

Feliz Navidad!

God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt Ar

Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan

Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun

Kung Ho Hsin Hsi. Ching Chi Shen Tan

Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto

Sawadee Pee Mai

Gajan Kristnaskon

Froehliche Weihnachten

Kala Christouyenna

Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova.

Vrolijk Kerstmis en een Gelukkig Nieuw Jaar


See you all in 2021 I hope.

See also my Photodiary 

Joining up with 

Wild Bird Wednesday 

I'd Rather B Birdin 

and 

My Corner of the World

All taken in our French garden this week.

Black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)...

As above...

As above...

As above.

Common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus).

As above

Common blackbird (Turdus merula). One of the youngsters talking to the Elephant 😊 - interesting to see the size against the elephant compared with the pigeon...

Two of them got into the greenhouse yesterday and dug up all my pot plants and seedlings, they were not very popular. Although I managed to chase one out, I had to catch the second one to put it out of the door.  I do not want to put netting over the doorway but I might have to if they return again.

A blackbird can look at an owl 🦉

Thinking up what mischief it can get up to next!!!

Little owl (Athene noctua) the closest I have ever been to 'our' Little Owls. They were very agitated about something and ignoring me. I wonder if there was a snake around, they sounded a bit like a pair of agitated parrots. I have never heard them making such a row. This one was on a piece of metal attached to the electric pylon on the corner of our garden at this stage. The other one was on the barn a bit further away making the same row...

As above...

As above.

See also my Photodiary 

Joining up with 

Wild Bird Wednesday

I'd Rather B Birdin

and 

My Corner of the World

Birds through the year....

Apart from the Stilt and the Heron all photos have been taken in our garden.

Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes).

January.

Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus).

February.

European greenfinch (Chloris chloris).

March.

Great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major).

April.

Eurasian Magpie or Common Magpie (Pica pica).

May.

Black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus).

June.

Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops).

July.

Common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus).

August.

A young Black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros).

September.

Grey heron (Ardea cinerea).

October.

Great tit (Parus major).

November.

Dunnock (Prunella modularis)

December.

European robin (Erithacus rubecula).

Christmas greetings cannot go without a robin so this is to also wish you all a Happy Christmas and a fabulous New Year.  Happy birding in 2019.

I am off to the UK on Monday until the end of January.  As I will be, with my husband, full time caring for my FIL who has Alzheimers, I have no idea if I will have to time to blog before my return to France in February 2019.  I will try to look in on your blogs if possible.

Linking up to 

Wild Bird Wednesday