Linnets

Brightening a grey day

Linnets always brighten a grey day.

A pair of Linnets is a constant joy. Especially when the male is singing from a perch in my garden. The female …

I love to see Linnets, with their bouncing flight, and constant twittering. They are nesting in my garden again.

It’s a dull day in Somerset but it’s enlivened by the sound of Linnets in the air. There’s a mobile flock exploring …

I loved seeing this male Linnet perching on the wind-burnt twigs in the garden of Einar this summer. He’s a beautiful sight …

Each year at Einar, the Linnets build their nests and raise their chicks. It takes two weeks from laying to hatching and …

There’s a small flock of Linnets on Yarner Heath. I hide in a gorse bush and wait for them. And one appears. …

A trip to West Kirbest results in a beautiful view of this male Linnet in full breeding plumage: It’s a farmland bird. …

We’re sitting in a thistle patch in Orkney. Luckily they are relatively sparse. We have company: There’s a juvenile Goldfinch exploring the …

It’s a wonderful evening, with soft evening light, on Trendlebere Down on Dartmoor. There’s the familiar sound of twittering as a small …

There are Linnets on the tops of the wind-burnt Sycamore trees in my garden: They love being up high on bare, exposed …

Turning the next page of this Ladybird book and it’s the Linnet: It says: “The Linnet is another very common bird.” It’s …

Einar has a small area of walled garden. It’s grown over almost completely with shrubs and wind-dwarfed trees and where there is …

The number of Linnets in Britain’s countryside has halved since I was a boy. I’m going to make the most of their company while they are still here.

There’s a Linnet on the lookout. Luckily I’m in a hide.

Wonderful weather. Beautiful blossom. A neat little Linnet at the top of the tree. Flocks of Linnets used to be a common …