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Chaffinch

Grandpa Chaffinch
30 Sep 2024

Grandpa Chaffinch

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

I’m getting pretty fed up with this wet and windy weather now – which doesn’t bode too well for my mood over the next five months. Today I needed to pick up a prescription from the GP’s surgery at Bidford, … Continued

bird, Chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs, Hillers bird hide, woodland
Bitter
26 Feb 2024

Bitter

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

The weather that is, rather than me, though I did have a bit of a stressy day, trying to make sure I’d done enough preparation to be able to migrate stuff onto the new Mac without mishap. Half way through … Continued

bird, Chaffinch, finch, Fringilla coelebs, Hillers bird hide, log, perch
Spinster
29 Jan 2024

Spinster

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

The binomial name of the Chaffinch is Fringilla coelebs. ‘Fringilla’ is the Latin word for finch, and ‘coelebs’ refers to the Latin word ‘caelebs’ (coel- and cael- being interchangable, according to my ancient Latin dictionary), which means unmarried. According to … Continued

bird, Chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs, Hillers bird hide, log, perch
Perched
20 Feb 2023

Perched

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

Right up until I processed this image, I expected to be posting a contre jour blue tit today. But there’s something about this one – the light on the bird, and the buds on the twig, plus the well-diffused background … Continued

bird, bud, Chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs, Hillers bird hide, twig
Archetypal
10 Feb 2023

Archetypal

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

When R and I had coffee at Hillers a few days ago, he left his scarf behind in the café – which was all the excuse we needed to make a return trip today. He went off to retrieve the … Continued

bird, Chaffinch, Erithacus rubecula, Fringilla coelebs, Hillers bird hide, robin, Warwickshire
Pomp
6 Jan 2023

Pomp

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

Here in the UK we can sometimes be a tad apologetic about our native birds, because on the whole they’re less spectacular than those of warmer and sunnier countries, and some of them (whisper it) are maybe even a little… … Continued

bird, Chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs, Hillers bird hide, post
Bachelor
29 Jan 2022

Bachelor

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

The English name ‘chaffinch’ is neatly descriptive, because this is a finch that is will search through chaff to find grain to eat. ‘Fringilla’ is the Latin word for a finch, and Linnaeus named this species ‘coelebs’, meaning single, because … Continued

bird, Chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs, Hillers bird hide
Poised
27 Jan 2020

Poised

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

I had a busy day, mostly involving things I’d rather not have been doing, but I managed to pop into Hillers at lunch time to see what birds were about. Sadly, there was an unusual level of noise in the … Continued

bird, Chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs, Hillers bird hide
Turning pink
12 Jan 2020

Turning pink

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

I wanted to go owling again today – because, of course – but it was cold and windy, and in the end I convinced myself that it wasn’t a good idea. So instead I went and sat in an open … Continued

bird, Chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs, Hillers bird hide
Chaffinch
5 Jan 2020

Chaffinch

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

I knew that today was going to be hectic, because I’d decreed it to be the day when the Christmas decorations came down, and we also had to take some kind of action on the broken washing machine. So I … Continued

bird, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Cyanistes caeruleus, Fringilla coelebs, Hillers bird hide

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