Spring like

The Spring like weather continued this visit, Sunday 19 Jan.  Its been warm enough lately, and wet enough, that the seed in my feeders in the garden has sprouted!!
Luckily here at the orchard there is at least enough interest, or enough birds, to keep the feeders ticking over, though as you would expect theres no real birds of any difference or big numbers as there would be if the weather were...well...actually wintery.
I suppose the irony is that today, Monday, as im writing this, there has been a frost this morning....at last!
So not an awful lot to report in the birds department, nothing new species wise....but heres a few pictures anyway:

Lesser Redpoll

Chaffinch

....from this wing it can be aged.  The tertials hold the key (extreme left of the picture), these feathers should have a lot more colour on the tips and edges to be an adult, so it was definitely born last year.

This particular bird is also likely to be a native as the wing measurement is small at 86mm.