{"id":898,"date":"2013-03-31T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=898"},"modified":"2013-03-31T17:07:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T17:07:16","slug":"more-siskins-and-a-brambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/more-siskins-and-a-brambling\/","title":{"rendered":"More Siskins and a Brambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes wonder if my mind is just empty because today I sat outside for about an hour hardly moving. I had my camera on a mono pod nicely angled so that it was just in front of my eye. I saw a male and female Bullfinch but they did not come close to me. At one stage the male looked as though it was going to come close so I closed my left eye so I could use the viewfinder with my right eye and it flew away. From then on I kept both eyes open and switched between using my left eye to see with and using my right eye to see with. That&#8217;s an interesting exercise, you should try it sometime.<\/p>\n<p>Siskins kept coming in quite close and at one time I saw a Blackcap but not close enough to photograph. But then in came a Brambling. Most Bramblings will have left the UK by now but a few stragglers still seem to be around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8606851932\/lightbox\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Brambling, still here by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8382\/8606851932_2e816f318a_z.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Brambling, still here\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8606851350\/lightbox\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Brambling, still here by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8244\/8606851350_99f7aac3f0_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Brambling, still here\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one, below, is a rather cute looking female Siskin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8605748377\/lightbox\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cute female Siskin by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8103\/8605748377_f49c74f4cb_z.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Cute female Siskin\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this one an aggressive male Siskin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8606849878\/lightbox\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Male Siskin being aggressive by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8385\/8606849878_6a28885117_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Male Siskin being aggressive\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes wonder if my mind is just empty because today I sat outside for about an hour hardly moving. I had my camera on a mono pod nicely angled so that it was just in front of my eye. I saw a male and female Bullfinch but they did not come close to me. 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