Greenfinches

Greenfinch

It’s poor light but the snow on the ground is reflecting the light beautifully. The softness of the sound and the softness …

Adult Greenfinches are stunning birds. The intensity of their plumage in beautiful dappled light has to be experienced to be believed. Their …

Greenfinches still seem exotic to me.

There’s a sound I know coming from the tree tops. I can’t see where it’s coming from. My directional hearing is awful. …

There’s a Greenfinch in a familiar place – up the top of a tree.

Pronunciation is such a local thing. Who would have guessed that the River Teign would be pronounced “teen’. Or that when pronounced …

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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 …

Here’s the page on The Greenfinch from The Ladybird book of British Birds and their Nests from 1955 from my continuing Ladybird …

Forty years ago I drew a Greenfinch. It may have been from a photograph or it may have been from a stuffed …

It’s forty years since I started my nature notebooks. I was twelve years old and lived in a tiny terrace in Oldham. …