These photos were taken by Diane Purtell in her sister's garden. Both birds are commonly seen in our school garden. The goldfinches are the ones with a red face and black and white head and very pronounced yellow band on the wings. These are regularly seen in our school garden. A family of goldfinches were in the garden all last summer and during the winter they fed every day on the seeds inside the Alder cones. They are becoming more common in and around Rush. In the next few weeks they will be feeding on the seeds of the dandelions. Look for them on the motorway feeding on the grass verges when you see the dandelion seed heads called "clocks".
The blue tit is also a regular and common visitor to the garden they are an active and very agile bird often seen hanging upside down on branches picking insects from the underside of branches. They feed on insects, small seeds and berries. They nest in small holes in trees walls and love to nest in nesting boxes. I hope that a pair will discover and nest in our box with the webcam.
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