A charm of goldfinches
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Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 6 Dec 2009
I estimate that there were around 300 goldfinches in this flock. They were feeding on thistle heads in the waste ground which has been created by land take for the A46 improvement works at Stragglethorpe junction.