Blue Tit

I managed to get round to cleaning out the bird feeders earlier this week and the replenished bird seed proved a great attraction to the garden birds this afternoon. I was shooting through an open window in the house but because I was using my largest telephoto combination I was able to get some good close ups of the birds( an SLR equivalent of a 960mm lens). I prefer if I can to shoot them in their natural habitat rather than at the bird feeder and we fortunately have a large fir tree near to the bird feeder and the birds often perch in the tree before swooping down to the bird feeder. I particularly liked this image of the blue tit because the detail of its feathers make you feel you could almost stroke their  downy texture.