DAY 8 Weather: very wet warm

I went to the Garden today to observe and photograph the birds again. Over the cause of the day there was a lot of activity around the feeders. To start with there was a lot of Goldfinches around the Niger seed feeder. They tended to get into fights over who had the right to sit on the feeder. The other new visitor was a loan Green Finch who decided that it was too much to contest with Gold Finches for the Niger seed and flew away. The most amazing appearance though today was a Green Woodpecker that swooped down scattering all the other birds. It was gone in a flash of green and landed in one of the big trees bordering the garden. It stayed there for a while then flew off. It seems that there are a lot of woodpeckers around campus. I would quite like to try and photograph them but they are very shy and tend not to stick around while I am in the hide.