Linnet – A new garden visitor
Although living in a rural location, there is little tree cover nearby and therefore the variety of birds we get in the garden is fairly limited.
Over the last few weeks we have had some new visitors though in the form of a pair of Linnets. These small finches are partial migrants to the UK and about the same size as a sparrow, but the males have a distinctive red head and breast. They certainly seem to be enjoying the forget-me-not seeds and I finally managed to take some photos of them the other day.