Finches

       The finches have started visiting me.   I think it’s because I filled one of my feeders with thistle.   This feeder has small openings at the very bottom, which were getting clogged when I filled it with bigger seeds.   This American Goldfinch loses most of his bright gold color in the wintertime.

       Here we have a Common House Finch.   I think that’s too plain of a name for this pretty bird.   If it were up to me I think I’d give him a prettier name.   Maybe Raspberry Finch.

       It took me a while to figure out that the bird at the bottom left is the female House Finch   She doesn’t really look much like her mate, does she?

* Betsy has commented and has corrected my identification.   What I thought was a House Finch in the last photo, is in reality a Purple Finch.