Well, after a bit of a slow start, the local birds are discovering that we’ve moved in and gotten our feeders set up. There have been plenty of birds in the neighborhood, but only few visiting our yard even with the feeders out.
This morning seems to have changed all that. A few Juncos have been regulars and one or two very skittish house finches, as well as plenty of passersby but not much more than that. Just this morning though, I caught a slight flash of color and notices a rather dingy somewhat gold bird in the tree near the thistle feeder. It looked like a female American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) but it was a little hard to tell in the foliage and then she was gone.
Not more than a few minutes later though, the unmistakable male happened by and stayed for quite a while on the thistle feeder. He seemed to be the first one to realize that the feeder was there because it was only after he had visited that other finches started to feed there as well. Its great to see a diversity of visitors so quickly discover our yard.
Here he is enjoying breakfast.
And here he is with the house finch and female goldfinch.
Enjoy!
