Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Yellowhammer
So beautifully yellow only the male yellowhammer can be in summer. This morning such a bird surveyed the surroundings, in the tip of a dark green juniper shrub, in the morning sun – as golden as can be.
A photo camera can’t really capture the emotion in such a light …
The early nesting yellowhammers have raised two broods of chicks, now there is some time for themselves. Vigilant but not particularly shy birds. In the same juniper thicket female yellowhammers were also seen in action. For them there has been enough yellow colour only for the eye and beak, the remainder of the plumage is brown-streaked. Young birds are in size as the adults, reminding of the females but their duller plumage seems more olive green.
This year over a hundred fifty adult birds nested here.