Jacqui
Sounds like a juvenile Goldfinch. According to my copy of Collins Field
Guide to Britian & Europe, they have grey-white finely streaked crowns,
no black on head or red face, and the picture in flight shows tails with
black or dark grey and white patches which might look like barring when
perched.
Jacqui wrote:
Whilst at Devil Bend Reservoir yesterday, we viewed what we thought were
immature goldfinches. The yellow on the wings was just developing, bill bone
coloured and chest patchy dusky. However one of them had quite distinctive
black and white barring all along the tail shafts. We could see no reference
to this barring in field guides.
Were they goldfinches?
Jacqui Sheppard
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