I love to watch the birds preening then finishing up with a beautiful stretch of their wings and tail. Most times these Goldfinches are perched pretty high up in the Mountain Ash tree when doing this behavior so I was lucky to catch this little beauty in his stretch on a low branch. It was early in the day with not much light (so what's new this time of the year, this close to the solstice?) so I didn't have a fast enough shutter speed to catch that back wing sharply. But there is always another day to try again!
