Fledgeling Greenfinch (Chloris chloris(

I was so please to see this youngster in the garden this morning.  Over the last decade or so Greenfinches have crashed the population now being about 1/3 the previous population.   So seeing that our local population is producing young was pleasing.

Greenfinch typically survive two years with breeding at one year old.  However the oldest know (proved from ringing records) was 11 years 3 months 24 days.  As the record was a bird caught alive by a ringer clearly it lived at least a little longer.

Interestingly it had travelled 367 Km (228 miles) from where it was ringed as a first year male to Surrey where it was re-caught.