Goldfinch
There’s a beautiful high-pitched tinkling from the branch above me. It’s a glorious Goldfinch, one of my favourite birds.
I could listen to it for longer than it wants to stay here and my heart soars when it lifts off and flutters away, lost in the sky.
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