Rainbow reflection

Rainbow reflection in glass

Female flycatcher has arrived!

Male and female flycathers don't fly together, from Africa to here. 

Normally the male comes first and about a week later the female comes.

Male flycatcher is taking over the territory and is searching out a nestbox,

 in that first week

I saw him singing and tweeting very loud and even being quite aggressively

chasing after coal-tits and other birds to make sure he is boss.

Today his behaviour was different.

and suddenly I noticed the female had arrived as well.

(The last photo is the male (darker)

the other ones show the female.)

Fluffy painting

Who has been painting, while I was not looking?

Arrival Flycather

There he is,
My little friend all the way from Africa!
He made it again and found my garden!
Such a wonder if you think about it.
Great to hear his squeaky sound again.
I saw him quickly inspecting a birdhouse.
However that one is already occupied by the coal-tits.

Luckily there are more options in my garden...

Flycatcherstime

I am wondering if the flycatcher is on his way,
to be honest, two weeks ago I was already thinking where he would be...on his way to here.
Flying above the Sahara maybe.
I don't know how long his trip will take.
9000 kilometers flying...
Would that mean for a small bird a month flying?

I looked for the dates he arrived the other years...
At least that I spotted him here.
I earliest he was here in 2012 of the 2 of April.
I am looking and scanning through my garden If I can spot him.
Not yet today.
Expecting to see him soon.

Going into the deep

Yesterday the doves got loose in the pond.
Normally they sit on the egde of the pond and drink from the water. sometimes it happens when they bend over a little too much and they accidentally  tumble into the water.
For me a delight to see.

However yesterday they were almost intentionally wanting to fall into the water.
I got so many photos of the doves plunging into the deep of the pond that it was no more an accident.
Watch for yourselves to see how the dove is going deep.

Gold crest

One of my favourite birds (the smallest of the smallest) showed up today again
for having a great fun bath.
You can tell he is enjoying it very much and so do I watching hime doing so.

doodles dove