Urban Bullfinches

We walked along Back Road in Golspie this morning, a road which, as its name suggests, runs along the back of the village. This resulted in cars following the A9 using it as a short cut to avoid Main Street, so some fairly fierce sleeping policemen were installed, which has largely solved the problem.

The road's now mostly used for local access and, as we discovered....

....by bullfinches which were intent on the litter under the beech trees - perhaps their flowers. This male was so busy that we were able to approach to within five metres before he, very reluctantly, moved....

....flying up into an overhanging branch until we'd passed before....

....returning to the road, this time with his mate.