Stunning pictures from England show hungry birds feasting on sunflower seeds in a gorgeous autumn scene.

Photographer Andrew Fusek Peters captured the magical moment from his kitchen in Shropshire, as the birds dove into the seeds to release them from fading sunflowers.

“It’s basic botanical biology happening before our eyes,” he mused in an interview with SWNS news agency.

“When the sunflowers go, they start setting seeds and that’s when we get sunflower seeds—one of the main things the birds eat…”

Among the multiple seed-eating bird species that are a natural part of the landscape in the West Midlands are the great tit, Parus major ( above) , and the European greenfinch, Chloris chloris ( see the pair below ).

“You don’t get anything more natural than them plucking them fro

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