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Image Taken on 21 Apr 2008 at 19:15    Image of day on 06 May 2008

A more static image of the pair of chaffinches at this site.


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Image Taken on 10 Oct 2007 at 17:36    Image of day on 10 Nov 2007

We guess this must be a pair of Chaffinches - they arrived only 2 minutes apart.


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Image Taken on 28 Oct 2008 at 06:49    Image of day on 17 Nov 2008

A little story helped along by a bit of brightening and sharpening of the magpie in the gloom away from the flashgun, but a genuine single frame.


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Image Taken on 10 May 2011 at 19:08    Image of day on 06 Jun 2011

Day Shift:A single frame catching the Chaffinch pair together at the site for once.


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Image of day on 15 Mar 2005

Sometimes when you see a bird in flight you fleetingly see colours not visible when the bird is perched. Here you can see an unexpected green patch hidden when this Chaffinch has its wings folded.


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Image Taken on 27 Jul 2010 at 07:55    Image of day on 03 Sep 2010

Maybe not ...


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Image of day on 15 Jun 2005

The male Chaffinch is surrounded by flies of which he also has a beakful, and he was singing at the same time without dropping them!


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Image Taken on 11 Apr 2007 at 19:09    Image of day on 26 Apr 2007

All the birds are very territorial. Here a male Chaffinch appear to be threatening an innocent yellowhammer.


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Image Taken on 24 Apr 2006 at 14:01    Image of day on 05 May 2006

This is a montage of a pair of Chaffinches that visited the site an hour apart. The female is on the left with a corn grain in her beak.


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Image Taken on 06 Sep 2010 at 18:30    Image of day on 30 Oct 2010

Two montages to tell little stories.
In the first the two outer birds are approaching simultaneously (with no hint of threat) but too far apart to make a good picture. But the next frame 5 minutes later showed them apparently enjoying each other's company so a long thin take on the 2 suggested itself.


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Image Taken on 13 Jan 2010 at 08:35    Image of day on 13 Feb 2010

These male Chaffinches can't resist a bit of a squabble even when food is short in the snow.


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Image Taken on 20 Dec 2006 at 13:06    Image of day on 31 Dec 2006

These 2 male chaffinches are already squabbling over territory.


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Image Taken on 11 Jul 2008 at 07:26    Image of day on 23 Jul 2008

We think this is a pair of young Chaffinches involved in a typical sibbling squabble.


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Image Taken on 24 Aug 2008 at 07:50    Image of day on 14 Sep 2008

What is probably a pair of chaffinches were seen in a number of images at this site. Note how the blue sheen on the male's beak has now almost gone.


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Image Taken on 14 Apr 2008 at 09:09    Image of day on 30 Apr 2008

Sure he was eating the buds/flowers but never caught him at it.


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Image Taken on 01 Feb 2012 at 15:20    Image of day on 06 Mar 2012

Another squabble over access to the peanut feeder in the freezing weather. Not that there isn't plenty for them all.


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Image Taken on 04 Jun 2008 at 19:03    Image of day on 13 Jun 2008

Bit of behaviour we have not noticed before - male chaffinches pestering a perched kestrel until it moves on.


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Image Taken on 09 Oct 2010 at 17:57    Image of day on 14 Dec 2010

A quite common occurrence - a robin threatening chaffinch male.


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Image Taken on 09 Oct 2010 at 17:57    Image of day on 14 Dec 2010

But here you see the event in its original context, which somehow changes everything.


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Image Taken on 15 Feb 2009 at 13:21    Image of day on 13 Mar 2009

Some sort of skirmish between a robin & chaffinch male. A minute or so later a chaffinch was back feeding so we assume the exchange was short lived.


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