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... and the wave brought this one too
delia todd

... and the wave brought this one too (Carduelis carduelis)

... a juvenile Goldfinch. Not sure that I've seen one in the garden before.

There was obviously a passage of a mixed flock of finches and thrushes moving round they only stayed for a few days, so if I'd been away I'd have missed them.

I wonder why they don't stay through the winter though?

TTTW

Had a great day yesterday, met up with Andy and Phil Johnston at the feeding station. Got loads of lovely pics (including one of my bogey species :t:) with advice from Andy, who set my camera back to Aperture Priority. Remains to be seen if I remember to change the aperture, got lazy on that one with Sports Mode LOL.

Thanks Andy - a great few hours we had, didn't we. Sorry you didn't get the blooming boomer though!!

Sports Mode
Continuous
f/5
1/300 sec
ISO 400
Exp bias: -0.3
Focal length: 86mm
Max aperture: 3
Metering mode: Pattern
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Habitat
Town garden
Location
Blairgowrie
Date taken
22 September 2015
Scientific name
Carduelis carduelis
Equipment used
Fuji Finepix HS50 Sports Mode Continuous
Doc Duck
Awwww, so cute! Hard to say why birds pick one spot over another. As my Argentine bird guide said when I asked how he knew there would be a species along one stream and not along the next one a hundred yards further down the highway, he said it was just years of visiting each road and stream along that route. He still couldn't tell what it was about the habitat that was different between two neighboring streams ... but the birds could.
Oh, and BF seems to be working fine here now, so maybe you're right that it was the weather.
 

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