Linnets

Out and about last weekend I came across a small number of Linnets in a mixed flock with Reed Buntings and Goldfinches.

With over half a million pairs in the United Kingdom they are considered common but nervous birds and difficult to approach thus surprisingly difficult to see and photograph. I doubt that I would have got these fairly close quarter images if I had not been in a hide.

They make a handsome couple though.

                                                                       Male

                                                                     Female