Taking flight

Back to the gloom. Fog this morning that hardly lifted all day.

I was watching the blackbirds arguing about who was allowed to feed at the ground feeder. I'm sure they expend as much energy fussing and fighting and chasing each other away, as they actually gain through the seeds that they do manage to eat.

And as they argue, the little birds look for an opportunity to dive in. This is the first time I have managed to catch a blue tit taking off, its eye on a space on the feeder. Of course the focus went and the branches are in better focus that the bird's head, but I do like the wing movement.