#chaffinches

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A hug in mid-air! 😁😍

A male and female Chaffinch actually having a bit of a lovers tiff at RSPB Greylake in Somerset yesterday! 😅

Carl's best photo of 2025 so far he thinks.. 😀😉🐦

📸 by @carlbovisnature

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Finches and Redpolls. Ferdinand von Wright (1822-1906)

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Chaffinches on branch outside window winter   -   Erling Enger  

Norwegian ,  1899-1990

Oil on canvas , 29 x 23 cm.

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Common chaffinches.

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Taken this morning :)

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Feathursday Finches

Here are some birds from the family Fringillidae, illustrated in black-and-white and hand-colored wood engravings by British author and wood engraver Eric Fitch Daglish (1892-1966) from his 1948 publication Birds of the British Isles, published in London by J. M. Dent & Sons in 1948 in a limited edition of 1500 copies. From top to bottom:

Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)

Twite (Linaria flavirostris)

Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla)

Eurasian Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

Red Crossbill or Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)

European Greenfinch (Chloris chloris)

Eurasian Siskin (Spinus spinus)

European Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)

Birds of the British Isles is a donation from our friend, Wisconsin wood engraver Tony Drehfal.

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Feathursday Chaffinches

The Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) is among the top five most numerous birds in Great Britain, and among the most widespread species in the finch family, breeding through most of Europe and into Siberia. This image is from of a painting by the British bird artist Terance James Bond as reproduced in our folio volume Birds, The Paintings of Terance James Bond, published in Cambridge, England, by the Lutterworth Press in 1988. Of chaffinches, Bond writes that the species' preference for feeding on the split and discarded grain in agricultural environments:

. . . is without a doubt the origin of the bird's common name, Chaff-Finch. Interestingly this species' scientific name also provides a clue to another of the Chaffinch's characteristics. A literal translation of the name Fringilla coelebs is bachelor finch: throughout Europe during the winter, Chaffinches form large segregated flocks of predominantly one sex. . . .

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The Natural History of the Garden. Written by Michael Chinery. 1978.