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Seeds For Goldfinch
Goldfinch (Spinus tristis). These two are male Goldfinches. A little hard to tell it is a male without its trademark black forehead, which appears during the summer. Now dressed in their winter feathers. Birds that molt twice a year. At the end of summer, and then again at the end of winter. Each time growing…
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Garden In Winter
Gardens in winter can be a source of food for many animals. Let those seedheads stay for the birds to enjoy. This is a male Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) in his winter attire. Goldfinch are here year ’round. They come to my feeders for the black oil sunflower seeds that I put out, but they also…
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Yellow
Looking through my photographs just now. In the file of yellow images, I came upon this one, taken May 12, 2020. A still mottled, male Goldfinch (Spinus tristis). He’s not totally grown in his complete breeding attire. But soon to be gorgeous in his yellow and black feathers. He’s perched on a seedhead of Siberian…
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Spring Molt
Like many small songbirds, the Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) goes through two molts per year. One in the autumn, a complete molt. A total replacement of all their feathers, body feathers as well as wing and tail feathers. Male and female, they go from yellow to a dull gray with just the slightest suggestion of yellow.…
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Seedheads
Drooping Sunflowers filled with seeds. Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) love them, and will do all sorts of gymnastics to get those seeds. Leave your garden filled with seedheads. The birds will thoroughly enjoy them throughout the fall and winter.
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Scarecrow and Goldfinch
As they look upon their world, Scarecrow and Goldfinch in serious discussion. Ruminations of Ray Bolger.