I had two attempts today to find a Hawfinch close enough for a photo. The morning started with some good bright sun which obviously wasn’t forecast, as I said yesterday it would be great if the national Met Office situated in our city could get somewhere near to an accurate prediction of the weather. I travelled just the short distance to Ide where I had seen a Hawfinch yesterday.
Here is a Map of the exact location.

Hawfinch around this paddock, shown as a green area on the “live-map”.Live Search Maps   When you get to the live map the birds were seen roughly at the pin mark 2. To get back to this page press return on your browser. Apart from one very quick glimpse of a bird which I think was my quarry, I didn’t have any success today and the suspect bird moved on before I could confirm. On the way back to home through the back lanes I encountered a very large flock of at least 200 Fieldfare . 

I took this photo in the Autumn, it shows a Fildfare feeding on Hawthorn Berries. Fiedfare are members of the Thrush family “turdus”, this is the same family that the American Robin belongs and my American readers will no doubt recognise some similarity in shape and size. They breed in Northern parts of continental Europe and are more common in the UK in severe Northern winters.

I tried again late afternoon but again no luck but it was nice to be out on the Chinese Bike exploring the local lanes. I really have not done enough of that over the years.