This is the fourth time I’ve seen this male yellow-rumped warbler (Setophaga coronata), eating suet each time. He seems to prefer the suet with mealworms over suet with nuts and seeds. It’s a terrible photograph, in part because I’m a poor photographer, but also, because I’m taking photos through glass.
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Spring has arrived with a vengeance. There’s forsythia, daffodils, and shiny summer-plumage goldfinches:
Male American Gold Finch in summer plumage
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This was a truly beautiful snow. I got up early to take some pictures while it was still snowing.
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I noticed that finches were trying out the two finch feeders, filled with Niger seed, and then rapidly abandoning them for the black oil sun flower. It may be that they just prefer the sun flower, but I suspect the Niger seed has gone bad. I’ve dumped both feeders, washed them in the dishwasher after a Clorox solution rinse and refilled them with a finch mix
The finches seem happier. Here’s a male House finch:
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I’ve seen the Cardinals twice more now, though the squirrels have rendered the Cardinals’ favorite feeder non-viable for the time being still. The Goldfinches, whom I’ve not seen since January, have returned, or at least two of them have. They tried the Niger seed in the Finch feeder briefly, but then abandoned it for the black oil sunflowers. Both the finches below are still in Winter plumage (or possibly immature), but here’s a female (on the left and more subdued in coloring) and a male American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis).
The brighter-colored male is on the right. I heard them before I saw them, and have heard them several times since I took these pictures yesterday. Goldfinches like to sing as they fly, and they have a characteristic zig-zag up-and-down flight pattern.
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