Can I just say - I LOVED the Tawny photos last week - well done everyone!
This week I thought we would open it up to all finches. So share your gorgeous little balls of feathers with us all 
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Found this one from earlier in the year
Red Browed Finches, I still have dozens of these little guys visiting daily
Matt
Here is my choice of the week. Very hard for me to pick one, I posted some a few days ago. But here I go:
One juvenile that hasn't changed colours yet:
M-L
Eurasian Tree Sparrow (including one I posted earlier)
Cheers, Owen.
I don't have any real close ups as I can't get close to any who come to our home, mainly the red-browed firetails.
M-L, I didn't know sparrows were in the finch family. I'll have to go read up on them.
Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
This is the only good one I have....and it's not that great but anyway here it is.
I don't have any photos but I did once see a flock of red-browed finches on my driveway. It was very exciting as it was the first time I had ever seen them, but that was about 3 years ago and I haven't seen one since :-( Well, I have seen them in other places, but not at my place.
I am not interested in sparrows. :-/ ...and I don't have any at my place, which suits me fine!
- soakes
soakes
Olinda, Victoria, Australia
Hi soakes, seeing you don't like the introduced Sparrows, I went outside to take some more Red-browed Firetails. They are the only finches I have in my garden. But of those I have plenty.
(There are many other finches, but nobody has posted any, I would have loved to see more.)
So, here are more of mine:
M-L
Wow, those are absolutely brilliant! How close do you get to these beauties!?
- soakes
soakes
Olinda, Victoria, Australia
2-3 m , or less. These were less I think. I'm a stalker, LOL
M-L
I like the Chestnut-breasted Mannikin ; these pics are from Mango Hill, Qld in Jan '11
Peter
Some of these have been on here before.
Zebra Finch, Red-browed Finch, Painted Finch, Masked Finch, Long-tailed Finch, Double-barred Finch, Crimson Finch, Chestnut-breasted Mannikan.
I've succumbed to the birding bug!
Alice Springs, NT
Awesome shots M-L
I've succumbed to the birding bug!
Alice Springs, NT
I had to look up finches because I don't know much about them. Can't say I've seen any here other than the red-browed firetail and sparrow (which I didn't know what a finch till this thread). I tried to look at the bird finder but it was throwing up error messages so did a search and found a listing for Australian finches on ozanimals.com. Would love to see more, they're colourful and cute.
Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
Kathie the following is an extract from the BARC (Birds Australia Rarities Committee) ) ) ) Checklist of Australian Birds - sorry the final column is my numbering system
you can see that 1) sparrows are not finches and 2) our Australian birds known as finches are also not in the family called finches which 3) has the Old World Finches
but the intention of the thread was clear
Peter
Gee thanks Pacman. Quite a list!
Kathiemt
Selby, Victoria
these birds ( posted #4 ) are very common here. we call them house sparrow.
are not there (astrailia) these birds?
Yes fonexic, they are here, but they are not native to Australia.
M-L