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	Finches

Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

Length 15cm

The chaffinch is a woodland bird but is a common visitor to our parks and gardens. It is the UKs commonest finch.

Male

Nest:-
Solid cup shaped nest of grass and moss sited quite high up in tree or bush, lined with feathers and roots and decorated with lichens and spiders webs.

female


	Feeding:- Beech masts, chickweed, seeds, fruits, insects, spiders, grain. Will eat a variety of seeds and scraps, preferring to feed from the ground rather than the bird table or feeders, often feeding on food that the other birds have dropped to the ground.




			Male


	Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)

Length 14.5cm


	The greenfinch is a farmland bird but has become common visitor to our gardens due to changing farming methods. As there is less grain and weed seeds for it in the countryside often exploits our increasing use of birdfeeders with seed and sunflower seed.


	Feeding:- Seeds such as elm, yew, bramble dandelion and burdock, buds, flowers and insects. Will eat peanuts and sunflower seeds in hanging feeders and clean up seed that has dropped to the ground beneath feeders.




		female


	Nest:- Loose nest of twigs, grass and moss, lined with hair and roots, usually halfway up thick bush or tree.Nests in small colonies.

Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)

Length 12cm

The goldfinch is a colourful bird that is more likely to visit an overgrown garden where flowers and weeds are allowed to go to seed.

Feeding:-
Seeds of thistles, teasels, burdock, dandelions, groundsel and deciduous trees also small insects especially aphids. Will eat from feeders especially thistle/niger seeds although they will eat peanuts and millet.

Nest:-
Of plant fibres, moss and lichens, lined with wool and thistledown, usually high up in fork of broadleaf tree.

Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)

Length 14.5cm

This bird is on the red list

The bullfinch is a beautiful bird but is disliked by many gardeners as it does a lot of damage to fruit tree blossom in spring.


	Nest:- Loose nest of fine twigs and roots in thick bushes or young conifers.


	Feeding:- Seeds of ash, birch, nettles, dock and brambles and buds off trees. Insects are fed to nestlings and they will sometimes eat peanuts, seed mixes and berries.




		Feeding:- Seeds of broadleaf and coniferous trees, insect, fine seeds, nuts and suet.

Siskin (Carduelis spinus)

Length 12cm


	Much daintier than our other finches, the Siskin is a newcomer to our gardens during the last 30 years.






			female

		Nest: Made of stems, moss and lichens, usually sited high up in conifers.




		Male


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