A Yellow Greenfinch!

[DaveS]

Yes, it is a Greenfinch, but an unusually bright yellow one.

 

We get Greenfinches on the bird feeder every day, but I'd never seen one so brightly coloured yellow.

 

I sent the photo off to the RSPB to ask if it was a Greenfinch, especially as it is 'ringed'. They confirmed that it was a Greenfinch, but agreed that it was unusual in its colouring, and suggested that it could be a genetic thing, passed down from the parents.

 

I was so taken by it, I went indoors to get the camera, and so as not to frighten it off, I kept some distance away, and although taken at 300mm + the 1.6 crop factor giving and effective focal length of 480mm, the image is heavily zoomed and cropped.

 

Canon EOS 7D + Tamron SP 70-300 Di VC USD. 1/320th at f/5.6 and ISO400

 

Dave

 

 

[Ian]

Snap  I got one of them to, one day when out shooting, there where 2 at the time the other was a darker shade unfortunately I didn't get a good shot

[DaveS]

And you are up the other end of the country Ian, so they aren't exclusive to East Anglia.

 

I'm fortunate to live in a rural village, and my garden backs onto open farmland, so we get a good variety of visitors to the garden, both feathered and furry, plus the occasional grass snake and slowworm, but this little fellow was the most yellow Greenfinch, I've seen to date.

 

I asked the RSPB why he would be 'ringed', and they said there are numerous studies going on all the time, and they catch the birds in Mist Nets, ring and release them.

 

Dave

[NannyFerret]

Two lovely shots.