As the song goes ...... I followed on wiv me old Cock Linnet .....

One way or another barbed wire seems to have featured in a number of my recent posts purely by chance.

This Cock Linnet posed very nicely for me in good light, one of a small flock in the vicinity.

In my opinion the texture and colours of the fence post really add to the composition and presentation of the image very nicely.

In the '' old '' days Linnets were frequently kept as domestic caged birds, thank goodness that society in the United Kingdom at least has advanced and ( generally speaking ) wild birds are no longer kept for the gratification of human beings ...... that was real progress .... now all we have to do is address the other abuses to birdlife in this country, Hen Harriers immediately come to mind !.