Chiffchaff

Being out in the country and surrounded by fruit plantations we get lots of birds here, and our neighbours have loads of weeds growing as they rarely visit in winter so their garden is always full of birds, flocks of Serins and Goldfinches, perhaps 20-50 or more visit every day along with Stonechats, Sardinian Warblers, Blackcaps, various other finches. We counted 200+sparrows in our pine trees once, they often fly from one group of trees to another individually, making it easy to count. Sometimes they can make a terrible noise though. They nest all over the place, many under the roof of a porch we built outside an entrance door alondside Spotless Starling, of which we also get lots, supplemented by European Starlings in winter.

I find Black Redstarts quite time, like the Robins, Every winter they visit us and a pair have slept in the garage for several years. This year they are sleeping in the space under our patio, on top of some shelves. I see you live in the town, do you get any other avian visitors from the surrounding countryside?

This little guy is adorable :) What a lovely capture, Noe and Pili! So sweet!

They are about the only ones like that here at this time of year but there are two species, Siberian is the other, but again I don't know the differences.

I have absolutely no idea how to separate male from female from a picture, they have so many plumage variations, basically the younger they are the more yellow they are but the yellow tips soon get worn down and if they survive into a second winter they are a dull grey.

Nice little one,