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Ray Wilson
Bird & Wildlife Photography
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European Greenfinch
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(Carduelis chloris)
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Adult male - Bratsigovo, Bulgaria - June 2007
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Adult male - Highland, Scotland - June 2003
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Immature - Highland, Scotland - June 2003
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| Although the Greenfinch is one of Britain's commonest birds, it came as a bit of a shock to me to find one drinking from a roadside puddle at Bombay Hook on the Delaware coast of the USA early one morning in May 2002. Unfortunately, it is probably unlikely that it was a true vagrant, which is a shame because it would have been the first record of Greenfinch in the US! A more likely explaination of its origin is that it could have been transported, inadvertantly, in one of the huge cargo planes that frequently land at the Dover US Air Force base just 10 miles down the coast. |
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