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#goldfinch — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Feeder traffic at Carbery Cottage

    The feeder at Carbery Cottage Guest Lodge on the Sheep’s Head is inside a rusted steel cage, so I couldn’t get a single photo without bars in it. It also stops crows and larger birds getting at the food! The great tits were juveniles, still yellow in the cheek and...

    inphotos.org/2026/07/24/feeder

    #BirdFeeder #Birds #CarberyCottage #Cork #goldfinch #GreatTit #HouseSparrow #Ireland #Photo #Sheep'sHead #WestCork #WildlifePhotography

  2. Feeder traffic at Carbery Cottage

    The feeder at Carbery Cottage Guest Lodge on the Sheep's Head is inside a rusted steel cage, so I couldn't get a single photo without bars in it. It also stops crows and larger birds getting at the food! The great tits were juveniles, still yellow in the cheek and a bit ragged about the head, and they spent more time hanging off the wire than actually feeding. One of the sparrows had a crumb of seed stuck to its beak. The goldfinch was the only bird with any real colour on it, red face, […]

    inphotos.org/2026/07/24/feeder

  3. I was cutting some rosemary for dinner (being careful to avoid spooking the honey bees), heard a rustling, and spied a lesser goldfinch trying to hide under the sourgrass and leaf litter.

    Dude, be glad I'm not a hawk, or you'd be dead. 🙁

    (This is also a “the best camera is the one you have with you” moment; I used my cell phone.)

  4. Heh. I should have cropped it this way. The goldfinch peering down at the nuthatch is the best part.

  5. @GriffithPark
    I've been talking to these little birds at my feeder for years, saying:

    "Don't you worry! You're not lesser to me! I think you're a *wonderful* goldfinch!" ❤️

    #Birds #Birding #Goldfinch #LesserGoldfinch