Male Brambling
A male Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla). For the finch photos I placed some feeders next to an apple tree, rather than placing single perches nearby. The birds tend to gather in the tree, but can be in a wide variety of positions. So you don't tend to get the nice clean backgrounds with the usual bird on a stick approach.
However, this approach is more of a challenge, and you get birds like this Brambling which might not have sat on a single perch. Although the downside is as here, you can get shadows cast by nearby branches.
Male Brambling
A male Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla). For the finch photos I placed some feeders next to an apple tree, rather than placing single perches nearby. The birds tend to gather in the tree, but can be in a wide variety of positions. So you don't tend to get the nice clean backgrounds with the usual bird on a stick approach.
However, this approach is more of a challenge, and you get birds like this Brambling which might not have sat on a single perch. Although the downside is as here, you can get shadows cast by nearby branches.