Yellowhammer - a rare visitor to our garden.

Over the last week there has been a Yellowhammer perched in a hawthorn hedge just outside our garden singing all day long. He’s at it from dawn to dusk singing for a mate, but I don’t fancy his chances much because Yellowhammers are an uncommon bird where we live. Nevertheless it’s always nice to hear his well-documented song – ‘A little bit of bread and no cheese’. However, yesterday he decided to fly over the hedge into the garden and I was lucky enough to be sat in my permanent bird hide at the time.



It’s a very rare occurrence for this to happen, probably only three times in twenty odd years.

He perched in various positions - in some ivy.



And looking for food among the grass and flowers.



I also took a quick video of him singing,

https://youtu.be/JFUAsfE_gr4

They are such a nice little bird and are welcome anytime.