Birds - woodpeckers, redwings and chaffinches

I've been testing out my new camera lens again - as you'll see I haven't quite got it right yet - the woodpecker is slightly (!) out of focus. There were lots of birds on the grass feasting on something the other day - even a family of Redwings - I counted at least 3 which isn't bad considering the RSPB site has them as fairly rare. Anyway, here's a couple of out of focus photos from the feeding:

Redwing

I've just bought a new camera lens for my Canon so I can take more photos of wildlife when I'm at home. I've been working at home today and this is a bird eating in next door's garden - not too bad given the distance. I'm not sure, but I think this is a redwing - click the title which takes you to the RSPB site. I also took photos of a blackbird and robin.

Wildlife - Good and Bads - Badgers and Redwing

I normally work from home a couple of days a week at the moment and yesterday I casusally looked outside at the holly tree which appears to be teaming with wildlife at the moment after its berries - and I spotted what looked like a thrush. however, after zooming in and checking on the RSPB web site it looks like it is a redwing which i've not seen before - so that is exciting.

On the bad side, the badgers have been regular visitors each night to my garden - and each night trash about 1ft x 1ft of grass - this is last night's visit. I don't think there is going to be much left of the lawn by the spring at this rate!