Goldfinch keeping watch
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Image: © Willie Duffin Taken: 15 Dec 2011
A goldfinch on a niger seed feeder. This is one of several who visit my feeders. Had a flock of 23 at end of September but with the change in weather and the presence of the local sparrow-hawk the numbers have dwindled to around 6.