A Pine Warbler has been singing all around the house, on the edge of the woods, all day today. Its rich, loose, musical trill is a welcome contrast to the stark gray quiet of the bare-limbed trees, like a winter-blooming flower drifting from shadow to shadow.<\/p>\n
And Goldfinches, finally! Our two finch feeders have been hanging off the back deck for almost a month now, full of finch-food but empty of birds. Until today, we had only seen two Goldfinches \u2013 and that may have been the same one visiting twice. This morning, I looked out the kitchen window into bright sunlight, and saw one Goldfinch clinging to the sock feeder and three perched on the tube feeder, all in grayish winter plumage with black wings, white wing bars, and a pale wash of lemon-yellow around the face and neck. All four stayed for a long time, just sitting and eating.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve never had great numbers of Goldfinches, but last year at least a dozen or two visited the feeders regularly for several weeks. So I\u2019m hoping this is the beginning of a little more activity there \u2013 maybe including some other species like Pine Siskins, which seem to be everywhere this year \u2013 except here. I haven\u2019t seen a single one so far, though I keep watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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