Another perfect day. Cool, comfortable, sunny. Not a hint of rain. Well, okay, that is I admit, a flaw because we really need rain … but it’s a holiday weekend so perfect weather doesn’t include rain no matter how much… Read More ›
Goldfinch
HOUSE FINCH, GOLDFINCH, AND A FEW MORE
MOSTLY HOUSE FINCH, GOLDFINCH, AND A FEW MORE If nothing else, this pause in space and time has given me good reasons to go back through my downloads. I have an awful lot of downloads that are just sitting on… Read More ›
THE STRANGEST EVER MOTHER’S DAY – Marilyn Armstrong
What a year! What a time for Mother’s Day! What a time! For all of us – mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers. Let’s keep on keeping on. From the strange old world into the even stranger new one.
UP IN THE AIR, JUNIOR BIRDMAN: DAY 4 – Marilyn Armstrong
UP IN THE AIR, JUNIOR BIRDMAN It’s such a little airplane and it’s 75-years old, too. But it flies. So high it disappeared into the clouds. For an hour, all we could hear was the occasional buzz of the engine…. Read More ›
BIRDS UP TOP – DAY 3 – Marilyn Armstrong
ON TOP WITH WINGS Whose on top? I think all the birds are on top! If you ask the birds in this picture, I’m pretty sure the Goldfinch win. The Goldfinches are all over the place and they always win…. Read More ›
A BEAUTIFUL DAY FOR THE GOLDFINCH – Marilyn Armstrong
This was the first sunny day in a couple of weeks. It rained yesterday and will probably rain tomorrow, but for at least portions of today, there was sunshine and puffy white clouds. I haven’t been taking many pictures. Maybe… Read More ›
YOUNG AND MATURE GOLDFINCHES – Marilyn Armstrong
You know the weather is warm very early because we have a crop of fledgling and adolescent Goldfinch. The very young ones show only a hint of yellow. They look closer to grey than yellow. It’s interesting having a whole… Read More ›
A FLOCK OF BRIGHT YELLOW BIRDS – Marilyn Armstrong
Try not to let your shock show, but in the morning we had a flock of red House Finches, but by afternoon, an awful lot of Goldfinch had found their way home again. Between one thing and another, I managed… Read More ›
BIRDS AND THE FIRST SNOW WITH ONE SQUIRREL — Marilyn Armstrong
This is not the first major storm on the second day of December. There was a blizzard in Boston in December in the mid-1990s. The thing is, when we got significant early snow, it generally means that it’s going to… Read More ›
THE GOLDFINCH CAME HOME! – Marilyn Armstrong
It’s not the big flock I had last year, but three Goldfinch showed up today and hung around long enough for me to get their pictures. They were the stars of last winter’s bird portraits. They are so awfully cute…. Read More ›
READYING THE DECK – Marilyn Armstrong
No way around it. I miss the birds! They were always there and all I had to do was get the camera ready and wait … and voila! They would appear in full and glorious color. Until the squirrels took… Read More ›
A FLOCK OF FINCHES, A DOVE, AND A BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD – Marilyn Armstrong
It was a super busy day at the feeder and for once, they didn’t all fly off as soon as I picked up the camera. It was a day for Cowbirds sharing the feeder with a little red House Finch…. Read More ›
