carduelis chloris

Greenfinch with raised crest, watching the Tree Sparrow at the feeder. Not looking grumpy for once, however.

Sorta. Some of them, at least. Although mostly I think of them as yellow.

Just because we're *drinking* under the table, doesn't mean we've drunk ourselves under the table! Greenfinches and Redpoll drinking and bathing in a puddle under a picnic table. Wasn't much light under there, and I wasn't quick enough to shift the exposure from what I'd had for the bathing Blue...

Yellowfinch? Brownfinch? Brassfinch? Bronzefinch? I really don't see where the "green" name comes from. Pretty birds, though. And they have some lovely, delicate songs that go almost unnoticed ... until the descending screech finale.

Greenfinch

Greenfinch

Here is one of my images taken this week of a beautiful greenfinch as my local nature spot. Very colour little bird in it's natural habitat.

Going through some old stuff I came across this from October 2008, a lucky double!

A greenfinch flying from an improvised feeder, just some sunflower seeds spread on a rotting log.

beautiful warbling

Greenfinch on the sunflower seeds. They do like these, even though there's sunflower kernels on the feeder next to this one.

other pic on www.webnature.cz

Took a long hike today to try out the monopod my son gave me for my birthday Friday. I thought I was acceptably steady before, and the camera has an image stabilizer, but the 'pod really does make a difference! Here's my best greenfinch shot ... ever. So far, at least. Thanks, son!

Greenie splashes it up, now that he has the baths to himself.

I heard this green finch "buzzing" almost directly above me. Looked up, and he was perched well posed, not really close enough for my lens, but worth a try. One clack of the shutter and off he flew, but I was fast enough to get two shots off in that split second, and the flight shot...