Moulting

and hard to believe what a beautiful red bishop it will turn into.

Waiting its turn on the lawn.

[winghong_ho]

Lovely shot.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

Fab mid molting shot

[Kathy A]

Looking a bit scraggly

[Issi Bannerman]

Oh, scruffy wee soul!

[Christina]

The ugly duckling....

[Susan Wakely]

Scruffy but cute.

[Peter]

Well spotted and beautifully captured Diana:)

[Babs]

He is definitely at that in between stage

[Rob Z]

He does indeed look fairly scatty - it'll be lovely to see him in his final colours..

[Yao RL]

wow, looks like the bird has not made his mind what colour to turn to yet.

[Mags]

Nice capture! Our goldfinches do the same.

[katy]

What a terrific capture of the process. It doesn’t look anything like the final results right now.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

So cute.

[Michelle]

It does look rather bedraggled, but waiting patiently for it's turn!

[gloria jones]

Neat capture

[Christine Sztukowski]

Wonderful natural capture

[haskar]

Lovely capture.

[Bucktree]

Wonderful capture.

[Heather]

A great capture in the sunlight and with wonderful detail with its plumage! Yes, its transformation will be quite something! Fav

[Corinne C]

Fantastic capture!

[Paula Fontanini]

Fantastic capture of this little bird waiting for his transformation! :)

[Rick]

Does look a little sparse on feathers. Great shot.

[Diana]

@wh2021 @koalagardens @kjarn @jamibann @christinav @wakelys @pcoulson @onewing @robz @yaorenliu @marlboromaam @grammyn @mittens @bigmxx @seattlite @365projectorgchristine @haskar @dkellogg @365projectorgheatherb @corinnec @bluemoon @rickster549 Thanks for the great comments and favs, they are very much appreciated :-)

[aikiuser (jenn)]

They do go through a bit of a rough look for a little while!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

His true colors are about to come through. They do look a little ruffled for a while, don't they?

[Diana]

@aikiuser @olivetreeann It can take months for them to regain their normal feathers. I often think how good it is that they do not have mirrors ;-)