We havn’t had a Godfinch in the garden for several weeks and there has been no sign of them either. Even if they don’t settle n the garden they are quite easy to identify in flight because they have a very distinctive twitter which is uttered constantly so you can allows be sure if and when they are in your vicinity.
I sat up in the top hide today but I am having a bit of trouble with a neighbouring cat which to be honest is driving me mad. I don’t get on with cats at all and to be sitting freezing in a hide in MY garden minding MY own business and having all my pleasure ruined by my neighbours cat is annoying to say the least. It wears a bell so I don’t think it is a very successful predator but never the less the birds scatter for the hills when it is about. My battle goes on with this cat! So back to birds. A frosty morning with fog is what greeted us this morning and oddly the local Jackdaws actually came in to the garden under the cover of the fog. I tried to get a photo but not very successfully. They are a clever bird and my favourite crow species. As soon as he got wind that I was about, off he went.
So back to the Goldfinch. For some odd reason I went down into my shed and set the camera up on to the feeder by the door. I was just about to call it a day as there had been no sign of anything. Then as if by magic, and yes it is allows magical when something appears on a feeder, there it was a gorgeous Goldfinch. One of my friends commented to me the other day that we don’t get colourful exotic looking birds in the UK……. well Jan, where have you been looking? Just look at this absolutely gorgeous bird. I remember in a “bird dealers” establishment in Florida chatting to the owner and he was talking of European Goldfinch as if they were some kind of exotic species and I suppose if you are from a country where they are not present you would be pretty impressed. Well I hope you agree!