Come Early, Stay Late

We had eight Pine Siskins pass through the yard yesterday. Here's one of them (on the left) sharing a birdfeeder with a Purple Finch.

This is about the earliest we've had Siskins in the yard and we hope they find adequate food (natural and/or provided) to stay the winter. Maybe they didn't come from that far away - we had a small group of Siskins at the feeders until late June. I was hoping they'd just stay to nest, but they were gone by early July.

Here's to a good winter finch year in upstate New York!

Comments

[Stacey]

I love your stories, they're so well depicted with such great photography!

[Barbara]

Nancy, how wonderful to hear from you and your new web pages are beautiful!

love the photo of the siskin and the finch... and yes since I live just across the Lake from upper New York State now here's definitely to a good finch winter!

[Ellen]

Welcome back to the blogosphere, Nancy!