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Finches

Posted by: GardenGrrl, 9:37 PM GMT on February 01, 2013

This months featured feathered entertainment are my local finches. Mostly I have House Finches. Occaisionally I have winter Gold Finches that stop by so I always keep a sock of thistle seed hanging.

Goldfinches love thistle. When I was in Minnesota, the best part of my delivery route was driving by a field full of purple thistle. Bright gold birds would hang from the purple thistle dining on little black seeds.

During the winter goldfinches become a dull olive with tufts of yellow that didn't quite turn. Those are the goldfinches I get. They are still beautiful to me.

Everyone probably already knows how birds change to dull colors in winter to hide from predators. So as not to repeat that I did find a nifty article about winter bird facts and myths. Winter bird Myths

So here are some from my yard.
This is a male housefinch.

This is a female housefinch

And here are my occaisional feeder guests, the winter goldfinches.

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51. BriarCraft 9:52 PM GMT on February 20, 2013
At 45F right now, you're not exactly having a heat wave, and I see you have a 90% chance of rain. 2071 miles away (according to Yahoo Maps) we're going to get the biggest winter storm of the season Friday night. Since we haven't really had any storms, the local TV weather forecasters aren't sticking their necks out too far. Looks like you've got a few partly cloudy days coming up. I hope you'll have a chance to get out and "shoot" some more birds. Member Since: June 21, 2004 Posts: 49 Comments: 2412

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