{"id":790,"date":"2012-12-16T12:18:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T12:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=790"},"modified":"2012-12-16T12:18:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T12:18:27","slug":"blackcap-and-ringed-siskin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/blackcap-and-ringed-siskin\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackcap and ringed Siskin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The corner of our garden with the feeders gets lots of Greenfinches at this time of year with a few Bramblings, Chaffinches and Bullfinches putting in an appearance. The Chaffinches and Bullfinches are local I believe.<\/p>\n<p>However, on Saturday I saw a couple of birds that are less frequent visitors. The first being a male Blackcap.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Blackcap in our garden by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8276582407\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blackcap in our garden\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8501\/8276582407_845d4a3fdc_z.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blackcaps tend to eat insects\/fruit\/berries I believe but this one was quite happy to eat some Sunflower hearts as was a Siskin.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Siskin in our garden by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8276583763\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Siskin in our garden\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8079\/8276583763_350947b436_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They were even happy to share the feeder.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Siskin and Blackcap in our garden by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8276583301\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Siskin and Blackcap in our garden\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8481\/8276583301_7a2494503b_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though I might only see a few Siskins a year it is obvious that this visitor has been seen before. It has a ring on its right leg. Unfortunately I don&#8217;t have the sophisticated software that CSI have where I can draw a box round a section and click enhance until it is perfectly clear what it says on the ring.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ringed Siskin by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8276583429\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ringed Siskin\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8084\/8276583429_188433240e_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corner of our garden with the feeders gets lots of Greenfinches at this time of year with a few Bramblings, Chaffinches and Bullfinches putting in an appearance. The Chaffinches and Bullfinches are local I believe. However, on Saturday I saw a couple of birds that are less frequent visitors. 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