Goldcrest central

1,400 birds... 1,100 and a half Goldcrests. Two with Russian rings, another one with a Polish ring:

Желтоголовый королек

And the half; I mean, umm, 'putative half':

The other half [putatively] came from a Firecrest. More about that one when we've scraped the crud off the base of one of its feathers and run the resulting flaky skin cells through a PCR machine.*

*It's a hybrid. You and I both know that. But better to be safe with cautious words than sorry...

And, hurrah, we finally got a white-as-snow Nuthatch. I feel like I can finally put europaea on my list now.

Finally, to balance out all the pretty photos of pretty birds, here's a 2cy female Chaffinch that retained A1 and A2 on both wings:

Bootiful.

Anyway, we're off owling now. Or wolfing, if it's still around.