Saturday, July 22, 2017

Bright Yellows......


The goldfinches join the sock feeder once in a while but the majority of the birds are the house finches. You can see the tail ends of the house finches in this shot.

I don't have visual evidence at this time but we see many newly hatched young finches and house finches at this feeder. I wonder how that might change the behaviors of the young ones as they do have to learn how to find seed in the wild.  I saw an adult goldfinch on my coneflowers last night while I was out with Barney.

2 comments:

Jeevan said...

I think feeding on wild is best for birds than picking from feeders... Lovely shots on the goldfinches

Ginny Hartzler said...

They are really like a jewel in nature! Beautiful shots!

Crow

 They are native to Iowa. He seemed to be so big because we are use to seeing grackles and blackbirds. The blue shine is striking and moves ...