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Originally Posted by captaincarot

well yesterday we went to rspb old moor, which has left me convinced that bull finches have some form of cloaking device which stops my camera from focussing corretly. i managed to get 15 slightly out of focus shots of em.
but we did see 3 at least, one very brightly coloured male, one slightly less strikingly marked and what i assume was a juvenile as it had very muted colours compared with the others. all of them on the feeders at the visitor center. i'm happy though as i'd only managed to see 2 of them before in me life.
we also saw a marsh harrier rise up on the thermals before heading off to the west which gave us a very good view.

then today we went back to malham cove, started the day off watching one of the juvenile peregrines just mooching about on one of the ledges, with one of the adults partly hidden by a tree. but we had a good hour and half watching the 2 of them sat preening and enjoying the view. then just before we packed up an adult and 2 juvenile green woodpeckers appeared up the hill behind us, so we spent a good 5 minutes watching the adult as it moved about searching for food.

What he said as i was also there