Plenty of bullfinches at times
Photographed by Peep Käsprein Lääne-Virumaa
Translation: SilverT
The photo has captured one third of the bullfinch flock
Bullfinch Leevike Pyrrhula pyrrhula
Bullfinches like to spend the winter-time in the fields, which have become overgrown by weeds in the summer, where high-growing dried-up plants stick up from the snow cover. If there is a spruce hedge or a forest next to such a field, bird-lovers take a closer look at it. Bullfinches also like to be close to an ice-free section of a river.
In the previously described peaceful places, the birds can sometimes spend several months until they start to think about nesting in March-April, or the travellers from the East start to make their way back to their home spruce woods.
In the countryside, one can lure bullfinches to the homeyard with sunflower seeds, like the author of the picture did after spotting bullfinches on ancient garden trees. They are busy on the maples and the ashes, picking the seeds that are still there or in the lilac bushes where they also enjoy the buds.
All singing birds become more vocal during springtime. Bullfinches sing their gentle and creaking „song“.
NB! Bullfinches are the only birds out of all species in Estonia, whose female birds also sing.
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