Goldfinch
I've often bemoaned the fact that we don't see many song birds in our garden. Whether the resident Herring Gulls put them off I don't know. I often hear a bunch of goldfinches fly overhead - they have a distinctive tinkering song in flight - but that's all. Except yesterday, when one decided to spend a lot of time on the bush next door that had some black berries on it.
According to the RSPB they are "sociable, often breeding in loose colonies, they have a delightful liquid twittering song and call. Their long fine beaks allow them to extract otherwise inaccessible seeds from thistles and teasels. Increasingly they are visiting bird tables and feeders. In winter many UK goldfinches migrate as far south as Spain."
Goldfinch
I've often bemoaned the fact that we don't see many song birds in our garden. Whether the resident Herring Gulls put them off I don't know. I often hear a bunch of goldfinches fly overhead - they have a distinctive tinkering song in flight - but that's all. Except yesterday, when one decided to spend a lot of time on the bush next door that had some black berries on it.
According to the RSPB they are "sociable, often breeding in loose colonies, they have a delightful liquid twittering song and call. Their long fine beaks allow them to extract otherwise inaccessible seeds from thistles and teasels. Increasingly they are visiting bird tables and feeders. In winter many UK goldfinches migrate as far south as Spain."