Stop tweet

Just tweeted a gold finch in the back of the garden next door, courtesy of my Christmas monocular, kept handily to hand. Had at first thought, without optical assistance, that it was a redwing, as seen in more or less the same spot in previous years. See reference 1. But it was a goldfinch and a very handsome bird it was too, not often seen (by me anyway) around here - or for that matter, anywhere else. See reference 2 for the last recorded sighting.

PS: as it happens, today's Guardian carries a picture of a goldfinch on its letters' page, opposite an article about the strange love affair between our governing classes and trident submarines - something which the corby the crow has got right. Along with sundry other, much more respectable people. Surely the governing classes can't all be on kick-backs from the contractors that build the things?

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/tweet.html. And other posts nearby.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/spring.html.