Goldfinch on Honeysuckle 4
by Linda Brody
Title
Goldfinch on Honeysuckle 4
Artist
Linda Brody
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Goldfinch on Honeysuckle 4.
Female Goldfinch (Lesser or American) feeding on Orange Honeysuckle Flower. It is January 2019, in Southern California, and a pair of Goldfinches have been taking advantage of our Honeysuckle bushes. These beautiful yellow birds try their best to hide from the camera, and stay hidden in the bushes. However, I have been able to capture them while they are moving about.
The American goldfinch (Spinus tristis) is a small North American bird in the finch family. It is migratory, ranging from mid-Alberta to North Carolina during the breeding season, and from just south of the Canada–United States border to Mexico during the winter.
The Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) is a very small songbird of the Americas. Together with the American Goldfinch and Lawrence's Goldfinch, it forms the American goldfinches clade in the genus Spinus sensu stricto. Lesser Goldfinch songbirds have long, pointed wings, and short, notched tails.
Males are bright yellow below with a glossy black cap and white patches in the wings; their backs can be glossy black or dull green (particularly on the West Coast). They have a black tail with large, white corners. Females and immatures have olive backs, dull yellow underparts, and black wings marked by two whitish wingbars.
These are social birds that are often found in flocks, particularly in winter. They forage in treetops for insect larvae during the summer; in winter they eat seeds, buds, berries, and small fruits. They make very erratic movements south into the continental United States in some winters, when they can become common at backyard feeders. Away from backyards, they winter in forests and feed in both deciduous and coniferous trees, often at higher elevations. They breed in spruce-fir, pine-oak, pinyon-juniper, and aspen forests of northern North America and the mountains of the West.
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January 31st, 2019
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Comments (38)
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
William Tasker
Stunning, Linda! I enjoyed seeing this fine image and with the naming of the species, it is now featured on the home page of Wild Birds Of The World - A Nature Photography Group. L/F
Randy Rosenberger
Your excellence in your submission of this work is worthy of special recognition, and I am seeing to it, that this happens in the WFS group. I am so happy to have you as an active member of our family of friends and fine artists, who support one another by comments, likes, faves, sharing, etc. Thanks for all your efforts to make our group so special by having a fine artist like yourself among many other fine artists that make our group so special.