A Corn Bunting Welcomes The Spring
There were plenty of these little birds singing their hearts out last night just behind where I live...but as usual with the small feathered ones they scarper as soon as you're anywhere near close enough for a decent shot! So here we are..messy surroundings...but joyous and uplifting in song!
The Corn Bunting is a nondescript lowland farmland bird and is the largest of the buntings and is most usually seen perched on a wire or post. It is a stout, dumpy brown bird which flies off with a fluttering flight and with its legs characteristically 'dangling'. Its dramatic population decline in the UK makes it a Red List species. This is mainly because fewer seed and insect food sources are available to them on farmland.
Also, because corn buntings are a late nesting species, their nests can be destroyed during harvesting or cutting.
So although it's not the most exciting bird to look at it is still wonderful to see them hanging on in there against the odds!☺️
A Corn Bunting Welcomes The Spring
There were plenty of these little birds singing their hearts out last night just behind where I live...but as usual with the small feathered ones they scarper as soon as you're anywhere near close enough for a decent shot! So here we are..messy surroundings...but joyous and uplifting in song!
The Corn Bunting is a nondescript lowland farmland bird and is the largest of the buntings and is most usually seen perched on a wire or post. It is a stout, dumpy brown bird which flies off with a fluttering flight and with its legs characteristically 'dangling'. Its dramatic population decline in the UK makes it a Red List species. This is mainly because fewer seed and insect food sources are available to them on farmland.
Also, because corn buntings are a late nesting species, their nests can be destroyed during harvesting or cutting.
So although it's not the most exciting bird to look at it is still wonderful to see them hanging on in there against the odds!☺️