Linnets in the Rowan Tree.

Absolutely great Louise. How lucky are you !!

Lovely pics Louise :-))))

knew someone called linnet once and always wondered what they looked like,thankyou for the pics,glad it made your year

fantastic Louise!

Lucky you Louise!

It's such a pleasure to have the birds feeding in the garden, lovely photos of them, thanks for sharing. : o ) ) )

lovely

What a nice change :) Well photographed.

How lucky you are Louise, its the first time Ive seen a Linnet!

Thanks everyone :-)
Pp, the first time i saw them i had to identify them in one of my bird books and i recognised them from the pictures almost immediately, the male has a red-blushed breast and the female a pale-ish beige - over the last week or so the males breast has got a more pronounced colour, as happens in the breeding season in many birds.

Wow! I've never seen a linnet in my life! They are lovely, I'm not surprised you are chuffed to bits Louise! Thanks for sharing....well I never!

Whose a lucky girl then!!!!......I'm not surprised you are thrilled...I would be too.....thanks for the lovely pics :-o)))))))))))))))

They're lovely Louise, never seen a linnet ... & what a perfect place for the feeders in that wonderful tree.

Congrats Louise, the must be wonderful to see and listen to.

lovely louise, i have greenfinch but never seena linnet, lucky you ;o)) great pics

Lucky Louise, have never seen one before, well done for spotting them....

Thanks again folks, these little birds are 'so' sweet, i could watch them for hours !
The light is better over there at 4ish so i'll try to get some better shots soon !

I've never seen one either - so thanks for sharing yours. :-)))

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Absolutely gorgeous Louise, how exciting is this? No wonder you are chuffed to bits~well done! :~))

Well done, Louise, you managed to get some great photos of some lovely birds! Like many others here, I've never seen a Linnet either!

brilliant blog and great photograpy and a wonderful subject.

Thank you Flori, Balcony and Lemondog :-)))
This tree is quite a distance away from where i stand and take the photos from so it's hard to really show you what's what !!!
I have fantastically strong binoculars, shame i don't have the same quality camera lens though :-((((

They're supposed to be brilliant singers aren't they Loise? I think they used to cross them with canaries, and of course, people used to keep the cock linnet alone in a little cage so they would sing:-( No wonder we don't see any now, I envy you, I didn't even know what they looked like, but I remember my next door neighbour at my old house telling me there used to be flocks of them around. :-)

Ba, you're 'so' right, their song is lovely and varied too.
It's such a shame my camera can't show these birds better because they're so sweet and ..... because i recognise their song anywhere i now know that they're actually in a lot of areas around the town here - aswell as the rural parts ....... i hear them everywhere !!!!!
As for birds in cages ...... very sad :-((((

How did I miss this?!!! Never had a Linnet in my garden Louise - I'm dead jealous! :-))

Hi Muddy :-)))
They really are gorgeous little things :-)