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Calis Beach Forum => Calis and Area - Member's Photographs => Topic started by: tinkerman on April 27, 2014, 08:41:40 AM

Title: Finches..
Post by: tinkerman on April 27, 2014, 08:41:40 AM

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Post by: badger on April 27, 2014, 09:01:14 AM

Tinx into ornathology? Hope you are watching the blues later

          Nice pics

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Post by: Lotty on April 27, 2014, 09:14:49 AM

Great photos again, thank you.  :)

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Post by: sadler on April 27, 2014, 09:52:07 AM

Beautiful pics.  I am very jealous of your photographic talent.   :)

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Post by: davybill on April 27, 2014, 12:02:12 PM

Nice pics Tinks, I hope it will be Blue Birds later,haha.

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Post by: KKOB on April 27, 2014, 12:21:19 PM

Goldfinches ?

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Post by: tinkerman on April 27, 2014, 12:32:25 PM

Yes that what I'm told Alan but didn't want to risk being wrong and face the Spanish Inquisition  ;D

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Post by: KKOB on April 27, 2014, 13:34:46 PM

I had to Google 'em but still wasn't 100% sure.

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Post by: kevin3 on April 27, 2014, 14:12:30 PM

Nice birds, that's near enough for me. Nice shot's Tinx.    ;)

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Post by: happy_flyer on April 27, 2014, 18:43:43 PM

Found this on RSPB , so yes they are Goldfinches and Adult ones at that.

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Post by: tamd on April 28, 2014, 19:33:50 PM

I have lots of these in my garden in Cornwall also!

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Post by: scorcher on April 28, 2014, 20:06:25 PM

Charming.

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Post by: teetee on April 29, 2014, 11:05:47 AM

Really nice pictures. If anyone is interested and you want to attract these bird in to your garden they are partial to Niger seed and you get a special feeder that these birds seem to be the only ones that use it. They usually feed in pairs one on one side and the other on the other.

 
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Post by: paulc1 on May 01, 2014, 20:46:32 PM

i also have these in my garden in, believe it or not manchester, they love to nest in the cherry blossom trees apparently   :)

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Post by: echogirl1 on May 01, 2014, 20:50:14 PM

I would really like to invite bullfinches into my garden, any ideas?

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Post by: KKOB on May 01, 2014, 20:56:54 PM

Try keeping yer clothes on. That would be a good start.  ;)

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Post by: GlennB on May 01, 2014, 22:38:37 PM

Hi Andy great pictures, the last one shows a pair of Goldfinches, cock on the right hen on the left,you can sex these by looking at the red 'blaze' the cocks goes behind the eye the hens doesn't. As for encouraging Bullfinches they like to feed on fruit tree buds, the Orchard owners hate them! You could try a good quality British Finch mix not the rubbish wild bird food which is full of cheap filling corn etc. try searching for suppliers of Haiths, Beyers or Country Wide Seeds.

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Post by: garryandmargaret on May 11, 2014, 15:09:54 PM

I watched locals setting traps last year to catch this beautiful wild bird. early morning 3 men with nets and a decoy bird in a cage very distressing
but no birds were caught, maybe if they had I would have had something to say to them I was very concerned this was by Munis Apartments in Calis if they return this year I will approach them obviously when I am in calis as we are only there 5/6 times a year
it started very early daybreak

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Post by: tinkerman on May 11, 2014, 17:47:57 PM

Never heard of anyone trapping trapping them? Can't think why they would, maybe there is a market for them somewhere?

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Post by: apollo on May 11, 2014, 19:10:50 PM

Quote from: echogirl1 on May 01, 2014, 20:50:14 PM

I would really like to invite bullfinches into my garden, any ideas?

Sunflowers.
We plant miniature sunflowers every year and we get weeks of entertainment watching them climb over the flower heads to get to  the seeds.