You are probably right. It is the second time this week that I meet the group, three brown birds and a white one on a trail of a nature preserve.
Found this little one waiting at the door. Luckily, he perked up and flew off after a while. Not sure why he was there in the first place
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Looks like a Goldcrest very nice, glad he flew off.
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Yep. He perked up a bit an hung around our railings for a bit to get his bearings back. Tony little thing, first time I’ve seen one so close.
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Gorgeous little thing, may have crashed into one of your windows. It’s a frill watching them recover and fly away.
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Have just seen a troop of goldcrests…got really close unbelievably…within 3 feet…!!! Its a long time since I have seen these…
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The collective noun for a flock of goldfinch is a ‘charm’.
My local goldfinches, after a summer of nesting, some more than one brood, and feeding from my garden stuff, have now gone out to feed in the autumn countryside.
I expect, as they have every year, that they will start to come back in numbers on the garden feeders around Nov/Dec.
Thanks…thats a really endearing name…I just used troop as there were about 8 of them busying them selves very close together - they appeared quite industrious!!!
A Goldfinch is a very different bird to a Goldcrest.
Thanks to this thread I think I might have identified a wee little bird that seems to have appeared this year. Earlier in the year I noticed this extremely small bird running up the tree trunk and disappearing in to the leaves but not sitting anywhere obvious on a branch. Being small I assumed it had disappeared in to the foliage. I described it to Mrs Bruss as being like tree creeper but more yellow and running up the tree not down. Since then despite most afternoons a small flock of them darting in from the conifers to one side of the field I have failed to see one of them being still enough to identify them. Looking them up I think they might just be these.
Superb shot…brilliant…love these busy little chaps
Yes, I was replying t Richieroo on his goldfinch post.
I normally have goldfinch in my garden on a daily basis, in pairs during spring & families in summer, Then in winter I get the sizable ‘charms’ that, prior to the 2006 outbreak of Trichomonas, could number >30 individuals.
I also get goldcrest feeding around the garden on odd occasions during the winter.
In spring/summer they nest in a few places around the village, yew trees in the church yard are favourites. I’ve also found them in dense hawthorn & blackberry shrubs on the hill beside my house. They take some finding, but keen ears & their high pitched ‘zi ziz zi’ is the giveaway.
I wasn’t aware @Richieroo had posted about Goldfinches?
Were you referring to this one, or am I having a Senior Moment again? 
Yes I was referring to Richieroo’s post on goldfinches, so I guess you were having a senior moment.
Now I know you must be screwing with me. 
Richieroo’s post was about GoldCRESTS and your answer was about GoldFINCHES.
With all due respect, which of us is having the senior moment???
It looks like the bark of my tree……it has a laburnum like leaf?
Oh err??? it looks like its me, I really thought I read that post as goldfinches.
I either must take more tablets, or maybe more water with.
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All that glitters is not gold
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