Greensboro Birds

There’s been some discussion about purple finches versus house finches in the comments over on Mary’s View, so I thought I’d dig up a couple old pics and try to compare them. Above is a purple finch lolling in the sun. He’s a burly guy, with a rosy hue in his wing feathers and very [...]

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I’m liveblogging this family of house finches. Right now, the adults are outside the office window with one of their fledglings, showing it the ropes of the niger seed sock. What a racket—I can hardly get any work done!

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