Cascade Pine · @cascadepine
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Carl S. Gutekunst · @alameth
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One of our new house finches, doing his best impression of a meerkat.

#backyardbirds #birds #birdphotography #HouseFinch

Last updated 1 year ago

Carl S. Gutekunst · @alameth
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My brother noted that finches ground feed like cockatiels. 😄 For sure, I've never seen finches feed this way before, let alone a whole flock that was gorging themselves and ignoring a bird feeder that was just 10' away. By comparison the juncos, who are natural ground feeders, were doing their usual casual browsing and looked a lot less clumsy.

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Last updated 1 year ago

Carl S. Gutekunst · @alameth
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I've been referring to the neighbor's hens as “the girls”; maybe that would be more appropriate for the small flock of young house finches that have descended in my back yard?

(Yeah, this is my lawn. California. Brown is the New Green and all that.)

#backyardbirds #birds #birdphotography #HouseFinch

Last updated 1 year ago

Carpingdiem · @carpingdiem
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It's just a normal late spring day at the feeders. The recent fledglings, like this and , are caring for themselves. I haven't seen the or fledglings yet, so the parents are taking away lots of suet.

#HouseFinch #DownyWoodpecker #redheadedwoodpecker #pileatedwoodpecker #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #nature #photography

Last updated 1 year ago

Michelle · @ThunderHoneySnow
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Whether a bird is red, orange, or yellow is the product of the ratio of the different pigments in feathers. These pigments are the bi-products of enzymes. Bird get their colorations specifically through yellow dietary carotenoids, which usually consists of vegetable matter. Birds will then convert these yellow dietary pigments to red. This is how they get their colorful red feathers

BRIGHT red house finches, why so RED?


blog.nature.org/2021/11/02/see

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Carpingdiem · @carpingdiem
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It was 80F last week and it was 36F this morning. That's April, I guess. Because of the cold, the birds are quite hungry.

#pileatedwoodpecker #HouseFinch #bluebird #yellowthroatedwarbler #birds #birding #nature #photography

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Colman Jones · @colmanjones
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Carl S. Gutekunst · @alameth
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The “Squirrel Proof Fird Beeder.” Not one of my better ideas.

Oh, the squirrels absolutely hated it: they'd leap, try to grab on, go flying, and land with an awkward crunch on the concrete. Unfortunately the birds hated it, too: the rubber baby buggy bumpers on the feed openings made it really hard for the birds to yank the seed out, and after awhile they'd give up. I tried removing the rubber baby buggy bumpers... and then the seed simply drained right out the opening.

#backyardbirds #birds #birdphotography #HouseFinch

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Carpingdiem · @carpingdiem
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We got a lot of rain yesterday. The birds were wet.

#HouseFinch #redbelliedwoodpecker #Photos #birds

Last updated 2 years ago

Colman Jones · @colmanjones
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LeslieC · @LeslieCptbo
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Aren’t I just as handsome as can be! Male singing his heart out on this way too springlike day in mid February!

#HouseFinch #ontariobirds #soundslikespring #birdsofmasotodon #birdphotography

Last updated 2 years ago

Debra Martz · @DebraMartz
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House Finch at the Watering Hole by Debra Martz
Beautiful male House Finch having a drink of water. With added dabs of color around the ground and on the rocks and finished with a painterly effect. The Finch is partially masked in the three different abstract layers I applied in order to keep it's true colors and features.

debra-martz.pixels.com/feature

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Last updated 2 years ago

Peggy K · @peggyktc
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This puffed up house finch hung out on my windowsill this morning to get out of the rain (but stay close to the window bird feeder).

#HouseFinch #NationalBirdDay

Last updated 2 years ago

John Reed Pavan · @johnpavan
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Paul Muller · @Caffination
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Anne Fausto Sterling · @faustosterling
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An American Goldfinch and a pair of housefinches

#naturephotography #birdphotography #goldfinch #HouseFinch

Last updated 2 years ago

Anne Fausto Sterling · @faustosterling
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An American Goldfinch and a pair of housefinches

#naturephotography #birdphotography #goldfinch #HouseFinch

Last updated 2 years ago

rhcmuts · @rhcmuts
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rhcmuts · @rhcmuts
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