Clodagh Finn: A bright spot in a year that was strictly for the birds

Now that we're all set to become homebirds again, the greatest big-screen TV may well turn out to be our own windows, writes Clodagh Finn.

CHARMING: Two goldfinches stop and have a quick snack at a feeder in a garden. Picture: David Creedon/Anzenberger

“Look!” I said. “Come quickly! There are four, six ... no, eight goldfinches at the birdfeeder.”

I watched as a charm — the collective noun for goldfinches, apparently — dipped and bobbed from the telephone wire to gather on the birdfeeders just outside the kitchen window.