Male Chaffinch
Chaffinches are one of my favourite birds. I’ve taken many photographs of them and blogged about them before. Here’s my most recent photograph.
I wanted to take yet another photograph of a Chaffinch partly because I’m a better photographer now than I was, partly because I’m much better at developing my photographs now than I ever was, partly because this one is free from the disease which affects their feet and partly because it’s such great fun to be in their company.
Great, aren’t they?
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