Goldfinch

Lots of Goldfinches have been visiting a tree in our next door neighbours garden and I can just about photograph them from one of our back bedroom windows. They do not usually visit this tree to my knowledge, but I suppose this extreme cold weather has meant that they have to feed on whatever they can find, not what they would prefer. as you can see from the pics the tree has some kind of catkin type seed head from which they are extracting the little seeds

Goldfinch

I didn't get the chance to get out this weekend, so had to content myself by trying to take pics of the Goldfinches on our back garden feeders. I think the Goldfinch is probably my favourite garden bird because of the colouring. It took quite awhile to actually get them to visit the garden, but now they regularly visit, sometimes up to 8 or 9 at a time.

Funnily enough they are very tolerant of attempts to photograph them, rarely spooking off, when fumbling about focusing and adjusting settings. this pic was actually shot through the glass of our conservatory, so I was quite pleased with the result.