Purple Finch

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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20
Apr

Purple Finches and House Finches

How to tell them apart?  For a long time, this was difficult for me.  At first, I tried to rely on the color of the males – the male Purple Finch is more of a raspberry color and the male House Finch more of an orange-red.  But what I discovered is that in winter when […]

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