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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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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