(1) Finches get bigger, fish gets smaller, but a finch is still a finch and a fish is still a fish.

(2) Birdsong enters the cottage from front and back - blackbirds, robins, finches .

(3) Their bills are slimmer than those of most finches .

(4) In late summer and early fall, flocks of tiny finches and other seed-eating birds swoop in to graze among the spent blooms.

(5) Sometimes they are called Painted finches, or Rainbow finches .