1:00 AM – Continuing with the Goldfinches:
And even more:
Something different – a Purple Finch appears to feed a Goldfinch.
Tag Archives: Purple Finches
Tuesday – 12.11.2018
1:00 AM – Here’s a break from the Goldfinch invasion, a kind of odd video of an immature Purple Finch soliciting food from a male Cardinal. The Cardinal goes along with it. I read about this, but have never seen it.
As long as we’re looking at Cardinals, here are three of the four males we have in the yard. I suppose they’re lined up in pecking order, with the top male getting to sit in the feeder, while the others wait.
Now, back to the Goldfinches.
Monday – 12.10.2018
1:00 AM – The Goldfinches have arrived. There’s a flock of at least six or seven on the ‘finch sock’ and in the platform feeder. It’s nice to see the sock being used – I noticed one Purple Finch on it.
More Finches, and a Cardinal
More Goldfinches and another Cardinal. It was a very busy day, in spite of rain.
Friday – 12.7.2018
1:00 AM – Lots of traffic on the deck feeders recently, probably because we loaded the rails and feeders with peanuts. What bird could resist?
Lots of Raccoon traffic, too. One (or more) visited a 9:30 pm, 2:00 am and 3:30 am. During the last visit we were sitting inside, a few feet away. Raccoons didn’t care.
Thursday – 12.6.2018
1;00 AM – Fat Cardinal having at the peanuts.
Three male Purple Finches jockeying for position on the platform feeder. There’s been a big increase in the Finch population recently, presumably visitors from the North.
Wednesday – 12.5.2018
1:00 AM – Pine Warbler and Finches.
Another video with a variety of snacking birds.’
Tuesday – 12.4.2018
1:00 AM – More video of the Dark-eyed Junco – in this case, two of them. Then a Cardinal
Small Finch sampling from the nugget feeder.
Friday – 11.30.2018
1:00 AM – Several birds on the platform feeder. I like how the Cardinal ignores the squabbling Finches. When the Dove comes, everyone else leaves.
Carolina Wren – he likes compressed bugs, just like everyone else.
Thursday – 11.29.2018
1:00 AM – Cardinals and Finches usually get along, but in this video a male Cardinal routes a Purple Finch. In the background, along the rail, there are at least one other male Cardinal, possibly two. That’s a lot of male Cardinals. I suspect that many Cardinals crowded out the Bluebirds. Maybe.
This Yellow Bellied Sapsucker likes the compressed bug cylinder. These birds look almost exactly like the Red Bellied Woodpecker, but the markings are different, if you know where to look. After he flies off, a Pine Warbler and Nuthatch take over.
Monday – 11.26.2018
1:00 AM – A couple of Chickadees enjoying the new deck set up.
Purple Finch, Cardinal and Chickadee. The usual suspects.