European Goldfinch

Such a cool photo! Made my day :)

incredible! pretty little things <3

Love this picture!

really beautiful

This looks just like the Disney Pixar short about all the crabby little birds on a wire.

Eye freezing.... very beautiful.

fabulous capture...beads on a string

Incredible capture!!! Congrats!!

Very nice shot! Such adorable birds.

Amazing!!!

Lovely spotting !

Wonderful picture.

DoinaRussu this is wonderful!

Wonderful photo... very striking!

Doina Love the shot you took.....one of the best shot I have seen....Superlike awesome!!!

Aw what a great capture!

Ahh - L series lens Doina. Something that I dream about. Very impressed that you post your work on National Geographic. I use the Sigma 150mm lens for my macro work and have been having great fun this year as it's my first year of serious photography. Still trying to capture decent wild bird photographs but the joy is just going out with a camera and not knowing what you will come back with.

In some parts of spain we call gatehrings of birds as "bodas", i.e., weddings! Congratulations, wonderful shot!

Now, that is one AMAZING shot!!! I hope you are going to sell it, or something!!

If only we had such exotic birds as bee eaters in the UK! I think that the closest we have is the Kingfisher which I know that you will see in Romania also. I too am an amateur photographer and will take a photograph of just about anything that stays still long enough! I love macro photography and have been trying to concentrate on photographing dragonflies and butterflies this year. I have been admiring some of your photographs for their clarity and am curious as to what lens you have been using and what post-editing software you use. Like you, I am fascinated in anything to do with nature and find incredible detail in even the most common creatures that we take for granted. An example are House Sparrows - Passar domesticus. Very common in the UK (and world wide too) but, like your Bee-eaters, their behavior is fascinating, acting like a bunch of adolescent kids on the feeders. Great fun to watch! BTW - you might want to consider putting Niger seed out for the Goldfinches. Once the word gets out they can't resist it.

Hi DoinaRussu. Sitta europaea is known as the Nuthatch in the UK. I often see these in our local woods but only rarely have I seen them in the garden. They have a very distinctive call which will often give their presence away. I was interested in your comment about different habits in different areas. In May this year I was able to spend 2 weeks in Spain, some 1500 miles south from the UK. The very first bird that I saw was ... a Gold Finch! And yet the call and song of the Spanish birds were distinctly different to the birds that I hear everyday in my garden in the UK, remarkably so. I wonder if birds that migrate south for the winter, take on a local dialect or do they stand out like a 'sore thumb' from the local resident populations.

We are lucky enough to have these birds on our feeders every day. In the UK we call a gathering of Gold Finches a 'charm' of Gold Finches. The great news is that this species is doing very well in the UK and the evidence seems to suggest that this is largely due to the fact that they have moved off the traditional farmland habitat and include gardens and bird feeders too. Its always a joy to see them as a group and, watching them on feeders provides hours of entertainment as they quarrel with each other for the best perch. Great photograph, well captured.

Welcome.

Cute name :-)

I used to love watching these little guys at my feeders when I lived in England - they are so pretty!

What a wonderful shot! Nice composition Doina!

Amazing.

Is so pretty this shot! In spanish we call them jilgueros :-)

Welcome..!!

wow beautiful color @DoinaRussu are they too small as in pic ???