It is probably female chaffinch. The light makes it somewhat more greenish looking than I am used to see, but it is definitively not greenfinch or siskin or citrilfinch.
Now that I throw the seeds the tits leave in the feeder on the ground, the chaffinches have descended in troves (the don’t like feeders but stick to the ground) and this one looks like them, but she was a first (probably a scout, I tell you…)
So after consulting my atlas at home, definitively female chaffinch.
I have also observed that some birds are reluctant to visit the feeder, but they will gladly pick up whatever falls on the ground under it -- like yellowhammers, siskins and chaffinches too.
Caine says
It looks an awful lot like an American Goldfinch. I’m sure it’s not, but still…
Marcus Ranum says
Feathers, 2 legs, beak, one eye on the side of head: it’s a bird.
kestrel says
I would guess some type of warbler. I think it also looks like a vireo, but I’m not sure… Seems more like a warbler.
Giliell, professional cynic -Ilk- says
By now I’m pretty sure it’s a female chaffinch
Charly says
It is probably female chaffinch. The light makes it somewhat more greenish looking than I am used to see, but it is definitively not greenfinch or siskin or citrilfinch.
Giliell, professional cynic -Ilk- says
Now that I throw the seeds the tits leave in the feeder on the ground, the chaffinches have descended in troves (the don’t like feeders but stick to the ground) and this one looks like them, but she was a first (probably a scout, I tell you…)
Charly says
So after consulting my atlas at home, definitively female chaffinch.
I have also observed that some birds are reluctant to visit the feeder, but they will gladly pick up whatever falls on the ground under it -- like yellowhammers, siskins and chaffinches too.