A Flurry of Finches

 I'd just gone into the kitchen to make a coffee, when a flurry of activity on the bird table caught me eye: An invasion of goldfinches!

(Not to be confused with their North American counterpart)

 Amongst these red-masked, gold-winged little birds were a handful of their cousins: greenfinches and chaffinches (although these larger finches were seriously outnumbered).

Countering all the gold is a juvenile or female greenfinch

In the photo below, a young male chaffinch is on the bird table, that blur on the left is a male greenfinch, and the blur in the centre is a goldfinch.

More flighty finches: centre right is a greenfinch and below that a goldfinch

I like how the goldfinch on the right-hand feeder is peering around to see what's going on

The two goldfinches on the left are waiting for a feeding spot to become available.

A male greenfinch tries (and fails) to bully the youngster/female on the feeder out of the way.

Incoming!  (Greenfinch from the lower right)

That's a chaffinch blur on the upper right

Somehow, a blue tit made it on to one of the feeders -

that blur on the left is him/her making a speedy exit

A male chaffinch hopping around below the bird table

And after they'd had their fill, all the birds flew up to sing in the treetops

 Thankfully, there was no Beaky in sight.  Although I did hear his strident shriek...

 More flighty finches and other birds (including Beaky) can be found here and here.