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Image Taken on 15 Jun 2016 at 06:12    Image of day on 28 Jul 2016

We usually see a 'few' Bullfinches a year. Here this male chooses the hedge outside the Living room window for a brief perch.


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Image Taken on 20 Jun 2008 at 06:56    Image of day on 03 Jul 2008

First time we have a decent image of a bullfinch, even if taken through a window. This is a male - there were two males stripping the flowerheads.


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Image Taken on 21 Nov 2017 at 11:48    Image of day on 26 Dec 2017

We saw two females and a single male Bullfinch in the same bush, all making the most of the dried out berries. The females were at opposite sides of the bramble bush, so this can show just one of them with the male.


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Image Taken on 27 May 2010 at 13:53    Image of day on 05 Jul 2010

A first for us - a Goldcrest photographed by an automatic camera.


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Image Taken on 18 Nov 2012 at 10:09    Image of day on 19 Dec 2012

You can't see the yellow crest in this image, but this is a Goldcrest moving through an ash tree looking for insects to eat.


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Image Taken on 27 May 2010 at 16:38    Image of day on 05 Jul 2010

Although taken about 3 hours earlier, we didn't see automatic cameras image until the next day, meanwhile having spotted the little beauty hunting in the oak tree 10m from the tree trunk top. This is a 'wren size' bird and moves just as quickly!


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