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Image Taken on 09 Nov 2009 at 15:41    Image of day on 14 Dec 2009

Unusual view of a Greenfinch showing more green than you usually see. Looks almost luminous - we haven't 'wound up' the colour.


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Image Taken on 17 Dec 2011 at 12:31    Image of day on 21 Jan 2012

During cold weather birds can get very aggressive around the feeders.


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Image Taken on 04 Apr 2011 at 14:19    Image of day on 03 May 2011

At a very different scale the Reedmace continues to be a big hit - here a greenfinch getting into a complete mess stuffing as much as it could into her beak.


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Image Taken on 23 Apr 2009 at 08:10    Image of day on 18 May 2009

And the more sedate Greenfinch collecting feathers to line the cup of the nest hidden we know not where.


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Image Taken on 02 May 2011 at 07:02    Image of day on 28 Jun 2011

"Don't you dare!"


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Image Taken on 06 Dec 2011 at 13:05    Image of day on 12 Jan 2012

Greenfinches reappeared after a summer and autumn absence, and are really aggressive towards each other and any other creature that gets in their way. Here a Great Tit flees the wrath of the Greenfinch.


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Image Taken on 18 Nov 2009 at 13:05    Image of day on 21 Dec 2009

The perch by the kitchen window peanut feeder is the site of many disputes, including one between this pair of greenfinches.


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