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"First President" Park.


2013-01-17| Vassiliy Fedorenko

Yesterday next to my house i saw about a flock of about 20 siskins sitting on the birch tree. But the birch was quite high and in the private yard, so i only took some record shots. And today i have decided to go to the President's Park, hoping that the siskins might show up there. But no. There was just one siskin in a flock with the red riding hoods (red-fronted serins)). Quite possibly it was the same that i have watched there on my previous visit. The behaviour was similar. The serins, even though they were quite plentiful, I did not shoot as much. The perch high in the tree and when they do come down, somebody would definitely walk by. Or a sparrowhawk might make a cameo and then all the bird scatter. So it was just serins, the pheasants digging in the snow and that's it. I don't count the ubiquitous corvids of course (magpie/hooded crow/rook).


1. Eurasian Siskin


2. Red-fronted Serin

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