Striking Gold

As my two blog readers well know, I have, for some considerable time, been attempting to photograph 'our' visiting Goldcrests. Invariably they can be found in our christmas tree searching for the aphids which infest the sad growth. Today was no exception,  but this time they seemed to linger and were more visible. They constantly called and the male occasionally burst forth into song. Mostly my photographs of these birds are fronts, backs or anything out of focus - today I managed five reasonable shots in the morning sunshine.