goldfinch

06
Nov

Pine Siskins! And our regular winter visitors …..

As of this past weekend, there are now two Pine Siskins from time to time on the platform feeder.  Sometimes it is just the two of them and other times they are with the goldfinches.  You have to look hard to see the bit of yellow on the wing-bars of the siskins’ folded wings, but […]

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27
Mar

American Goldfinches

Take a good look at the goldfinches at our feeders over the next few weeks and you will witness a remarkable change in the males.  They will change from their drab winter color of grayish-brown with sometimes a hint of yellow, to a mottled mess of golden yellow and that same drab grayish-brown, and finally […]

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