Gold

A lady goldfinch hopped around in the twigs.  Her bright colored husband was no where to be seen.

 

Goldfinch

From flowers to birds, yellow seems to be the color right now.

 

Red and yellow

A goldfinch and house finch share a spot on the feeder.

 

Learning from Dad

A daddy goldfinch and juvenile checking out the dog fennel.  I think daddy was showing the young one how to find its own food.

 

Seedy weedy field

Mr. Goldfinch enjoyed the seedy wildflowers.

Mrs. Goldfinch was well fed also.

 

Not a butterfly

Look who else was enjoying the flower field at the art museum!

They were eating, either seeds or bugs.  There were plenty of both.

 

Not so gold finch

This little guy came visiting.  I think he's an immature goldfinch just turning yellow.

 

Gold

Every year I look across to the neighbor's yard, and there are little spots of yellow on their purple flowers.  

The goldfinches love to eat the flowers.  We've tried to lure them across the street to our feeder, but they just like the purple flowers.

There are 4 in this picture, but when I got too close and scared them out, at least 10 flew away.

Birds of a feather don't flock together

I've always heard the saying: "birds of a feather flock together".  But now that I've been doing more birding, I think that's completely wrong.  When I watch the bird feeders, I see groups of birds of many feathers all together.  

Here is a Red bellied woodpecker and a blue bird at a suet feeder.

And here's two blue birds (male and female),  a goldfinch and maybe a yellow rumped warbler.

Birds are much more inclusive than people, they like to hang out together.

Here, a pair of bluebirds and a house finch visit a pretend bird.

Mom and Pop Goldfinch

The birds have finished their courting and are all paired up now.  We saw a pair of goldfinches at the feeder at Wilkerson Nature Preserve.

Birds again

The bird feeders were very busy the day we were at Wilkerson Nature Preserve.  A Downy woodpecker and Pine Warbler shared the suet feeder

A White breasted nuthatch was next.

A Goldfinch parked on a perch for a long time.

A female gold finch and a house finch joined him.

Goldfinch

I see these goldfinches every now and then, usually out of the corner of my eye, and I wonder if I really saw it.  This time it was posing for me.