It really is a goldfinch - I actually checked on The RSPB site (http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/g/goldfinch/index.aspx) before I posted! I managed to get him on such an angle that the gold bit doesn't show.
It is fascinating, isn't it, how the European settlers took the names of their familiar birds from home and gave them to local ones, so that we have lots of different birds with the same names. I think your goldfinch is probably more deserving of the name than ours is.
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Date: 28/03/2010 04:44 pm (UTC)It is fascinating, isn't it, how the European settlers took the names of their familiar birds from home and gave them to local ones, so that we have lots of different birds with the same names. I think your goldfinch is probably more deserving of the name than ours is.