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Nope! As I understand you are from Europe and the House Finch doesn't exist there. Here (Hawaii) it's introduced and very common bird. But back in the years when I started posting in CR someone made a perfect point: "What is common for you is not common for many of the rest here" (or something like that - I don't remember exactly the words).
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Today (Mather's Day!) it was a botanical garden: not my choice but I knew there are a lot of Chestnut Munia (Lonchure atricapila) there and and I don't remember when actually I have seen them last time and when I took a photo of adults. Not because they are rare here, most probably because I haven't been in rainy habitats for years... Shy - few clicks and gone!
First was a Red-whiskered Bulbul bringing building material. That one was not shy but tricky: it was sitting on a sign with a left arrow reading "To the Lake" and even looked at that direction before it took off to the right in dense bush where I couldn't follow it
! After that the Chestnut Munia: I have seen hundreds of them in that location but today was very different - just few couples!
First was a Red-whiskered Bulbul bringing building material. That one was not shy but tricky: it was sitting on a sign with a left arrow reading "To the Lake" and even looked at that direction before it took off to the right in dense bush where I couldn't follow it
! After that the Chestnut Munia: I have seen hundreds of them in that location but today was very different - just few couples!
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I was cycling back after a fruitless birding session and decided to detour to a pool where I rarely see anything. This Wagtail was pirouetting around, catching the insects on the wing. He occasionally ate some and then got a beakfull for the nest.
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