Not too many 'evenings full of linnets' wings' at the moment; or too many evenings at all as the shortest day of the year looms. Still it's downhill after that!
This female-type is puffed-up against the cold and was photographed in the back garden.
temperate to subtropical w, c Palearctic in open lowland woodland, fields (alpine meadows in s); British Is., s Scandinavia e to Altay region (sc Russia), n Xinjiang (nw China) and far w Mongolia, in s to Madeira and Canary Is. (Macaronesia, w of n Africa
Iberian Pen., Italy, Greece, nw Africa and Mediterranean islands
guentheri
Madeira, Porto Santo and Desertas (Madeira group, nc Macaronesia, nw of n Africa)
meadewaldoi
El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife and Gran Canaria (w, c Canary Is., c Macaronesia, w of n Africa)
harterti
Fuerteventura, Lobos (just ne of Fuerteventura), Lanzarote, La Graciosa and Alegranza (just ne of Lanzarote; e Canary Is., c Macaronesia, w of n Africa)
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
