Fringilla coelebs – Jill Orme Photography

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

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

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

10 Feb 2023

Archetypal

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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

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

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

27 Jan 2020

Poised

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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

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

5 Jan 2020

Chaffinch

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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

11 Sep 2019

Sassy

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Landscape, Northumberland | 0

This morning we went back to Leaplish, one of the visitor sites beside Kielder Water, and revisited the wildlife hide in the forest. The area immediately in front of the hide contains several bird feeders, but a notice explains that … Continued