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Another visitor to the garden for food – believe it is a female chaffinch or a juvenile. The female has an olive-brown back, and grey-brown underparts becoming almost white towards the rump, which is greenish. The juveniles are similar to the female but lack the greenish rump.

It does not feed openly on the bird feeders - it prefers to hop about on the ground under the bird table and usually hides in the bush. It will dash out from the bush, grab some seed and then return to the cover of the bush – making it difficult to photograph.

Between September and March, the chaffinch population increases with 10-20 million immigrants from Scandinavia and Western Europe looking for food. These birds are usually found in large flocks on open farmland, whereas resident British birds are usually in woodlands and hedgerows.