Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road

Tag: winter finches

  • Finch Findings, Part 2

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    Here are the long overdue results of the winter finch quiz from my last post, Finch Findings. On a less pleasing visual note…while photographing the finches last month, I noticed something I see every few years in the House Finches I encounter. One finch landed and looked over his shoulder. After I snapped a quick Read more…

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    Mike Dunn

  • Finch Findings

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    This winter’s theme is a “mixed bag” of finch movements. ~Ron Pittaway, Ontario Field Ornithologists After seeing the first Purple Finches at my feeder a few weeks ago, I started searching online for some information. I ran across one of those interesting combinations of technology and old-fashioned field observations that seems so common in the Read more…

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    Mike Dunn