FinchFest

Female Goldfinch (the red stops midway along the eye, not behind it)

Male Greenfinch

Male Great Tit, with super-wide black belly stripe

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker (with red on nape)

Time for some more garden bird ringing.

• Greenfinch, 12 (+ 1 retrap)
  
• Great Tit, 12 (+ 1 retrap)
  
• Blue Tit, 11 (+ 1 retrap)
  
• Goldfinch, 7 (6 were male!)
  
• Chaffinch, 3
  
• Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 (male and female)
  
• Dunnock, 1
  
• Robin, 1
  

Greenfinches seem to have made a comeback, as they've only been present in small numbers lately. Where have they been? 

All the retraps had been ringed on the last session, on 8 February. Where are those birds now?

Previous sessions: 8 February 2009; 3 January 2009; 17 November 2007

photos taken with Canon Powershot A640