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Tavascarow
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 2867
Location: South Cornwall
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We had great, yellow, noisy clouds of them munching on the echinacea in town. I'm planting echinacea next year to attract them!
Beth (surely, though, they weren't here in the US from the UK) |
Nope your goldfinches are a different species to the European goldfinch.
European Goldfinch
American Goldfinch |
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bodger
Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 6704
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| Posted: Sun Nov 01, 09 9:35 am Post subject: |
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I've seen the American goldfinch at my friends house in NYS and they are not even similar.
Its the American Robins that amaze me, they are way bigger than our black birds. |
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Jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 18688
Location: North Devon
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Not many finches here, but I did just see a proper big, Hitchcockian flock of starlings swooping and chattering before going to roost. |
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bodger
Joined: 23 May 2006
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There seem to be a few more starling about here this year but nothing like the hundreds of thousands of ten to fifteen years back. |
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lottie
Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 3982
Location: ceredigion
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We had a huge flock wheeling over the field next to us last evening-but when we moved to Bolton 20 years ago the garden was covered in them when I threw scraps out---by the time we left I never saw one. |
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