Greenfinches at Seaton Wetlands
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I’ve loved Greenfinches ever since I first saw them in the back yard as a child. I drew them in my 1970s nature notebooks:
Here at Seaton Wetlands in East Devon there are a few busy birds moving through in their search for food:
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They look like seriously uncompromising birds, with powerful beaks.
![Greenfinch - Seaton - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Seaton-The-Hall-of-Einar-1493.jpg)
I still find the acid lemon yellow stripes on their plumage to be unbearably exotic.
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The males are greener with more defined yellow stripes. The females are greyer and less noticeable. Juveniles are faintly striped above.
![Greenfinch - Seaton - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Seaton-The-Hall-of-Einar-1516.jpg)
I’m finding them very endearing.
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We’ve lost half of the entire Greenfinch population in the UK since 1970. How long before the remainder are lost?