Greenfinches

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

Greenfinch

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. It’s not a flattering angle: Thankfully, when I …

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

If anyone follows me on social media or subscribes to my blog they might be forgiven for thinking that I didn’t need …

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. …