A starling only took a few seconds to feed her baby with a suet pellet when they flew into a garden in Blaby.
Mary Wilkinson was just as quick to capture the image with her Panasonic Lumix TZ8 camera. Mary, 62, was standing in the kitchen at her Ash Grove home, when she saw the two birds land on her feeding table.
She said: "I managed to snap them before they flew off.
"The mother had taken one of the suet pellets off the table and was feeding it to the baby. I took it through the window and was only two yards away.
"I took the picture on a day when it was dull and dreary. But this shot made my day."
Mary started taking pictures of the birds in her garden when husband, Keith, bought her the camera two years ago. She said: "I was so pleased with the picture I have framed it."
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