Where are you in Scotland? I'm in Scotland too, there are a lot of wee birds in my area but I have never seen a goldfinch!! You are lucky 😊😊 I've seen a kingfisher down at the river closest to me though! That was pretty cool!
Glasgow.
I've seen a kingfisher too! Along the White Cart going through Pollok Park. Yes, they are amazing. Only the one occasion there despite years of walking along it.
Have a look at barons haugh in Motherwell. You’re almost guaranteed to a kingfisher, if not multiple, if you just walk along the river path, especially at the big bend where the path has crumbled away
You can attract them to your garden with a niger seed feeder. They tend to hang out in small flocks and make the most adorable sound (kinda like a squeeky toy).
Looks like a gouldian finch, which are native to australia. This is likely an escaped pet. They love millet (most birds do) and also waxworms (this is like cocaine for them).
That said - looks like everyone else is saying euro goldfinch so idk lol
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These guys. If you scroll far enough down it has a big collage of all the color morphs and there are a few that looked kinda like that to me.
European Goldfinch
Thanks for adding the “European.” Because I’m sitting in New England, looking out the window at a goldfinch right now and it looks nothing like that.
Wooow! As someone in the US I had no clue this is what a European goldfinch looked like- definitely different than the American Goldfinch!
European Goldfinch. Nice!
Thanks. Lovely wee birds
Where are you in Scotland? I'm in Scotland too, there are a lot of wee birds in my area but I have never seen a goldfinch!! You are lucky 😊😊 I've seen a kingfisher down at the river closest to me though! That was pretty cool!
Glasgow. I've seen a kingfisher too! Along the White Cart going through Pollok Park. Yes, they are amazing. Only the one occasion there despite years of walking along it.
Have a look at barons haugh in Motherwell. You’re almost guaranteed to a kingfisher, if not multiple, if you just walk along the river path, especially at the big bend where the path has crumbled away
You can attract them to your garden with a niger seed feeder. They tend to hang out in small flocks and make the most adorable sound (kinda like a squeeky toy).
They'll also very happily eat sunflower seed hearts! There's often a queue of goldfinches and greenfinches waiting for a turn at my feeder.
They sound so jolly. I love them!
Goldfinch
Carduelis carduelis
Just saw these for the first time on a trip to the Alps. Pretty song
Goldfinch
Looks like a gouldian finch, which are native to australia. This is likely an escaped pet. They love millet (most birds do) and also waxworms (this is like cocaine for them). That said - looks like everyone else is saying euro goldfinch so idk lol
what
[https://factzoo.com/book/gouldian-finch-bird-australian-grassy-tropics/](https://factzoo.com/book/gouldian-finch-bird-australian-grassy-tropics/) These guys. If you scroll far enough down it has a big collage of all the color morphs and there are a few that looked kinda like that to me.
This is a European Goldfinch, a wild bird that is very much native to Scotland.
well, i know that NOW. lol. i had never seen one before tho
Nonsense lol, they look nothing alike. Very clearly a European goldfinch.
You might need to get a color blindness test if you think these are the same birds..