European Gardening: Birds in the garden Part 2., 1 by bonitin

bonitin wrote:
That's nice to know Resin! I have a large Betula in my garden, but its the only one in the immediate neighboorhood. And I have birdfood out almost year round.
I do have Troglodytes troglodytes, both types of Blue tits; Parus caerulens, Parus major, a couple of blackbirds, Turkish tortles, woodpigeons, a large community of sparrows and a couple Robins that visit every year in winter, though I haven't seen them around yet this year.

There has been a bird I wasn't able to ID, some time I thought it was a Carduelis chloris (don't know its English name).
That was around Christmas 2005. I found it in my garden and it looked as if it was suffering from the cold. I had the idea to offer it to come inside the house, so I opened the large door-window on the first floor and to my amazement it came inside! It has been my winged guest for about 5 days. Then it has let me know that it wanted to go outside again and I have let it out.

Here it shows how I found it outside;