If you are wondering what on earth this photograph is, see below for the closer shot and you'll see a bathing blackbird.

 I was off today, not feeling up to scratch so I took a day's holiday and did very little. I was roused out of inactivity though when a splashing in the bird bath alerted me to a happy blackbird, dipping his head under the water, throwing it back and flapping his wings to create a little fountain.
I didn't have the correct lens on the camera and didn't want to scare him off so I snapped him in a haze of droplets. Now I know where the water has been going to.

And look who else paid a visit to the garden today. The greenfinch has returned and is seen here, enjoying the peanuts in the company of a blue tit.