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17-12-2006, 12:37 PM
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| | | Greenfinches! What birds are you waiting for?
Yippee! The green finches have arrived in my garden in large numbers! I've been waiting, and worrying they had fallen prey to the dreaded disease, as I've only seen two toggether at most, but today, in the bright sunshine, the garden is glowing with them! I'm thrilled to bits! 
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17-12-2006, 01:12 PM
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| |  Re: Greenfinches! What birds are you waiting for?
Don't they (Greenfinches) look brilliant in this glorious winter sunshine we've had this weekend (in south at least!). I love watching finches in my garden, with Goldfinch my most numerous.
I'm glad yours hadn't perished. |
17-12-2006, 03:49 PM
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| | | Re: Greenfinches! What birds are you waiting for?
Oh, yes Aeshna 5,
They are acid green sharp against the bare red-brown twigs and the golden hill! Wonderful.
I get loads of goldfinches now, but will never tire of them. One flew straight at me this morning, and with its little red face and whirring wings, it looked like a World war one aircraft with propeller spinning! 
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17-12-2006, 04:02 PM
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| | | Re: Greenfinches! What birds are you waiting for?
We've a posse of six greenfinches that have been fairly regular visitors all through the late summer and autumn and are now with us every day, fighting all the other birds off the feeders when they decide they want to use them. And fighting each other for the favoured perches too. Very messy eaters - they are the only ones that camp on the feeders to eat. All the others pick up a seed and take it off elsewhere to nibble it.
Still waiting for the goldfinches to discover my nyger feeder, though.  |
17-12-2006, 04:23 PM
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| | | Re: Greenfinches! What birds are you waiting for?
Iv'e had the odd greenfinch, I don't get any golds until feb, I have seen a few chaffinches the birds colours are good this time of year. I was pleased to see the long tailed tits visit my willow to-day, I had it pollarded last year and because they couldn't see the tree from the reserve they didn't visit last winter as they had in previous winters |
17-12-2006, 04:28 PM
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| | | Re: Greenfinches! What birds are you waiting for?
I'm waiting and praying for the return of the siskins. They were truly wonderful to have on the feeders.
I've also left a large pile of apples rotting away under the tree in the hopes that we will have some visiting redwings as we did 2 years ago. I can but hope!
In the meantime, the apples are keeping the blackbirds busy.
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17-12-2006, 04:55 PM
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| | | Re: Greenfinches! What birds are you waiting for?
When I was little we had a feeder on the window and I told my parents I'd seen parrots.
Have been enjoying watching the aerial starling displays over the garden. Quite a good group, I'd estimate a thousand.
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17-12-2006, 06:16 PM
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| | | Re: Greenfinches! What birds are you waiting for?
We have Goldfinches and under the porch, among the still hanging grapes, several birds that look like Black Caps but are taking the small sweet black grapes
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17-12-2006, 06:48 PM
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| | | Re: Greenfinches! What birds are you waiting for?
I haven't seen any long tailed tits in the garden yet, except one brief glimpse, and no redwings yet, or fieldfares, so plenty to hope for and look forward to. I wouldn't know if a siskin landed. What's the difference in behaviour between them and green finches?
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17-12-2006, 09:56 PM
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| | | Re: Greenfinches! What birds are you waiting for?
Puffins |
17-12-2006, 10:09 PM
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| | | Re: Greenfinches! What birds are you waiting for?
Oo, yes. I've never seen Puffins either. Not expecting them on the feeders though! 
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18-12-2006, 09:29 AM
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| | | Re: Greenfinches! What birds are you waiting for?
We really must get that trip to the Farne Islands organised before Boddie explodes It amazes me now that I see how much other people yearn to see them how much I used to just take puffins for granted when I was a child on the Northumberland coast. |
18-12-2006, 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by smartie  We really must get that trip to the Farne Islands organised before Boddie explodes It amazes me now that I see how much other people yearn to see them how much I used to just take puffins for granted when I was a child on the Northumberland coast. | Yes, for me the puffin trip is my No.1 priority trip next year.
I want puffins
I want puffins
I want puffins |
18-12-2006, 05:53 PM
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| | | Re: Greenfinches! What birds are you waiting for?
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Originally Posted by Boddie Yes, for me the puffin trip is my No.1 priority trip next year.
I want puffins
I want puffins
I want puffins | and this from a man whom I seem to recall claiming "I'm not a birder" on a thread a few weeks ago - just look what a trip to Gigrin has done to him - welcome to the world of birding |
18-12-2006, 07:29 PM
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| | | Re: Greenfinches! What birds are you waiting for?
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Originally Posted by JeffH and this from a man whom I seem to recall claiming "I'm not a birder" on a thread a few weeks ago - just look what a trip to Gigrin has done to him - welcome to the world of birding | Snakes & Spiders next Boddie. | |
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