1:00 AM – A female Goldfinches get a drink from the birdbath, then gets chased off.
Action from the Trail Cam – the first part is just a normal cat, but the second is some kind of mystery animal. If only it had moved slower and closer to the camera.
Tag Archives: Goldfinches
Wednesday – 6.27.2018
1:00 AM – Goldfinch taking a drink. They’re still here.
Squirrel drinking and looking into the camera. Does he understand he’s being recorded? Maybe.
Monday – 6.25.2018
1:00 AM – Blue Jay looking for the missing platform feeder. He’s not the only bird trying to find it.
Squirrel successfully attacks swinging feeder. Squirrels always win in the end. (Too bad about the poor quality of the video)
Cardinal and Goldfinch briefly share the swinging feeder.
Friday – 6.22.2018
1:00 AM – Here’s what happened to the mealworm feeder we placed on the rail. Exactly what you’d expect to happen:
The Brown Thrasher has been around the last few days. Actually, he’s here quite often, but not every day, like the Cardinals.
The Goldfinches are still here:
Wednesday – 6.20.2018
1:00 AM – Goldfinch, probably a female, or a non-breeding male. This bird doesn’t have the black head markings of the breeding male, but it’s not as drab as the non-breeders are supposed to be. The ‘finch’ beak, which looks like a smaller version of the Cardinal beak, isn’t found on the Warblers – which resemble the Goldfinches. Not sure what it is, but I’ll call it a female, or possibly a non-breeding male.
Tufted Titmouse and Chickadee on the Squirrel Buster. These guys, along with the Cardinals (and Squirrels) are the most common visitors.
One more of Mazy chilling out in the pool,
Tuesday – 6.11.2018
1:00 AM – Enthusiastic Tufted Titmouse having dinner:
Goldfinch couple on the Squirrel Buster.
Monday – 6.11.2018
1:00 AM – The Goldfinches are back. In this video we see what’s probably a non-breeding male – no black cap. Later in the clip a breeding male appears.
Here we have a Purple Finch (I think – it looks purple to me) attacking a Goldfinch. Later on a Carolina Chickadee shows up. Typical day on the feeder.
We end with Mazy’s midnight swim.
Monday – 4.16.2018
1:00 AM – Here’s a Goldfinch, a non-breeding male, I think. That accounts for the rather dull color and lack of markings on the head. We haven’t seen many Goldfinches this year.
This Cardinal, shown here bathing, seems to have started molting.
Finally, a Carolina Chickadee pecking on the compressed seed cylinder.
Sunday – 2.18.2018
1:00 AM – A Goldfinch, though it’s not the bright yellow we like best. I frequently, in the past, misidentified these as some kind of Warbler, but the black markings on the face confirm that it’s a Goldfinch. (I hope.)
More Finch Sock action. This is from a few days ago, but the visiting birds are still going strong.
Nice quiet video of a male Purple Finch, and occasional companions, feeding on sunflower seeds.
Thursday – 12.14.2017
2:18 AM – The final day of “Bluebirds Behaving Badly”, then we return to current bird activity.
Innocent Yellow-rumped Warbler tries for a mealworm snack, and you can guess the rest. The actual hit is in slow-motion.
Goldfinches keep trying to use the feeder/birdbath but greedy Bluebirds put a stop to that.