Japanese crossword «Bullfinches and mountain ash»

PolN0vik, I missed you

Pretty but tedious!

This is a beautiful picture, but a brute of a puzzle.

Happy New Year, PolN0vik! Nice to see you here...

Thank you

Agreed! Nice picture but too tedious!

I enjoyed the difficulty level

more visible in the thumbnail, but was tricky, thanks

YAY! PolNOvik is back!

Agreed: tedious.
And yes, a great mix of colours.

Beautiful! I liked the challenge.

I loved the color scheme! It gives a retro cross stitch vibe to the final image.

I love the colors. The puzzle wasn't hard in the sense that I could always find a move, but it took me a long time - worth it, though. At first I thought the heads were too small and flat, but looking this species up (I'm in US, so we don't have them), I see that they really do have small flat heads, or perhaps just appear to because of their markings. These all must be males, since females don't have red breasts. Thank you, PolNOvik - I'm always excited to see a color puzzle by you.

Agree with Celandine's comments. It took a while but was always making progress and rewarded with the clever picture. Only three colours for everything, very clever. Thank You!

cool!