Greenfinch

Description:

During the last week of January I got another occasion to take few more shots of this beauties, this time in much better light; so I decided to post it once again, in spite of posting it few days ago (https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/12...). Besides, these guys are not so common winter visitors of my feeders - I rarely saw it in my backyard, even though it is a common resident in Geneva lake valley and slopes of Jura. Greenfinches are the size of house sparrows, but mainly green-greenish, with some yellow and black in wings. They sport massive, conical, and pale bill, a typically seedeater's one.

Habitat:

Seen on and around our feeders, in the backyard of our residence building, at outskirts of a small urban center in Geneva lake valley. The backyard counts a number of deciduous trees and shrubs, most of them spontaneous and local, some planted. The backyard neighbours a meadow (used for producing hay) and a lowland deciduous (mainly oak and beech) forest, and some other agricultural fields.

Notes:

1. I love the name of this subspecies - Chloris chloris chloris... the most common one. 2. Other visitors of our feeders are other finches, tits and sparrows; but I often had the impression that, when these guys come, they bully all others and start ruling the feeder and it's environment. This happens in spite of them usually being low in numbers.