Forest of talking trees

Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)

Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)

Red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio) ♂

Eurasian coots (Fulica atra)

Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) ♂

Mandarin ducks (Aix galericulata) ♀ ♂

Common starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) in the sea of siberian squills (Scilla siberica)

juv. Tawny owl (Strix aluco)

Coal tit (Periparus ater)

I’ve taken exactly 49 photos of this bird and I’m still not content with any of them, but I had to upload at least one, I spent too much time and energy on it (my muscles were literally shaking after holding a camera up for such a long time). Also, its face expression seems so sad :c

Common blackbird (Turdus merula) ♀

Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) ♂

...probably, it might be a willow tit, but I’m 80% sure it's not

After posting last photo of nuthatch I started looking back at the first time when I snapped it, remembering the excitement that I had managed to do this with a simple tourist camera, but also cringing at the quality. That made me wonder- if I display all the photos of nuthatches that I’ve ever uploaded, will it show the progress? So I did. I guess it’s mostly change of equipment and methods of editing as well as higher standards of what is a ‘good enough picture’, but still it cheers me up a little to see a difference :)

Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)  ♀

Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea)