Dunnock – visited garden

These probably aren’t the clearest photos I have of a dunnock but they are my favourites. They show the perils of being small on a windy day as the dunnock tries to sing but then has to cling on as a strong gust of wind threatens to blow him off his perch.

Along with the blue-tits, the dunnock is one of the birds I see most often in the garden. If there is a scribbley sort of song being sung in the garden then it is probably the dunnock. I’ve even heard him break out into song from the bird-table when I was only three metres away working in the garden. (His favourite perch is the corner of the fence just above the blue-tits’ nest-box.) As well as singing, the dunnocks have been feeding from the bird table and generally hanging around.