CCC: Birdy Blip

More detail (plumage and reflection) in large ("L").

I've missed photographing birds; I feels harder to give over enough time to be patient and wait for birds during term time... BUT, I went out for a while this morning with my long lens on the teleconverter and had fun photographing the garden's usual suspects in the warm sunshine (another beautiful day).

I photographed blue tits, the female chaffinch, the dunnock, and even the wren! I (of course) photographed the friends blackbirds (well, the male is friendly, and the female is super-skittish), and also snapped the jackdaws circling Christ Church Cathedral. I want to get a close up of one of them: I love their piercing blue eyes and their shiny grey heads...

Other birds:
The wren! (probably my best wren shot thus far)
The dunnock on the city wall (= my alternative)
Blue tit singing
Blackbird approaching
Blackbird on the fox's earthworks, with blown-out background bokeh

Oh, and I'm including another "blackbird" (a black ladybird) in my birdy blip, because apparently language trumps phylogeny...
On a leaf & under a stick

p.s. This was under the big tree in the garden: the relatively dark, shadowy surroundings are what lead to the reflections looking so bright, because the garden behind me was in direct sunlight.