Finches eat at a crowded tube feeder while yet another finch flies in, legs out, ready to kick another finch off its perch
Ain't no party like a house finch party! Landing gear locked, clear the area! August 2023 #FinchyFriday #birds
Looking like 5 miles of bad road, for a House Finch, this male is caught looking over the edge of the concrete block he's standing on so it looks like he's having a rather depressing day...
Appropriately, I think...
...a House Finch I named 'Gary Busey'...
...is my #grounded #BirdOfTheDay for #FinchyFriday! 🤘😶🌫️
📸 Haemorhous mexicanus 🪶🌿
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#ECK
Spring vibes. Two vibrantly red-headed male House Finches hanging out together in the budding Ocotillo, singing for any hot lady finches...'how you doin'?'
In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
The trees may bud, the waters run,
The merry finches sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,
And swaying branches bear
The Elven-stars as jewels white
Amid their branching hair.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
🌿💕
#FinchyFriday 🪶
#ImageAndVerse
Met some more White-crowned Sparrows (not pictured) and a couple of vibrant male House Finches, all enjoying the fresh Spring buds...
...this one is just a tad shady, but he was looking at me which always wins my heart!
Got bud...? 🌿🐦
I do. And House Finches. 😍
That's all she wrote, Winter...
... #FinchyFriday is BACK! 🤘😶🌫️ Today's #birding!
📸 Haemorhous mexicanus 🪶
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Just in time for #FinchyFriday. A pair of house finches visited the feeder cam today.
Spoiler alert: The female pops in at the end. 🪶 #BackyardBirding
📸 House finch: Haemorhous mexicanus
Three house finches perch in a bare tree, a pair together in the midground and a solo male in the foreground looking larger than life. The scene is heavily backlit and slightly overexposed.
Some (unedited) atmosphere for #FinchyFriday #birds
A male House finch with his dark red head, brown body, and brown stripes on his buff belly, faces left while using his claws on his left leg to hold on to food he's trying to eat.
#FinchyFriday and our birds don't know how to act. Yesterday's high temperature was 65°F; today's was 78°F. And this weekend's high temps will be back in the mid-60's. I'm just as confused as the #birds are. 🪶
📸 House finch: Haemorhous mexicanus
A male house finch is looking to the left at seeds in a feeder.
After ignoring the finch feeder for weeks, a House Finch decided it was a good place to perch and snack all day. #FinchyFriday 🪶
I hope the other birds were paying attention that day. Mr Finch was very serious about his expectations. May 14, 2025
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A brightly colored male House finch visits the bird buddy. The top of its head and its chest are red, while the rest of its body is brown and buff.
Happy #FinchyFriday. Whew! We've made it thru another week. #Birds 🪶 #Urban #BirdOfTheDay
📸 House finch: Haemorhous mexicanus
Four photos are of different house finches stoping by the top of a cage feeder. They are brown and cream patterned and the male has a redish head and chest
House Finches were stopping by the feeder top to visit, then left without a snack. #FinchyFriday
A male House Finch in profile is a rosy red and brown bird with a short, thick, conical bill. Its head, throat, and chest are primarily rosy red, while the back, belly, and flanks are streaky brown, with the red color intensity varying based on diet. This one's been eating his Wheaties, posed contemplating on a slanted branch with long green pine needles in bokeh for the background. Artsy, and a new edit of a finch fav...fitting, for a final finchy Friday for a few. Feeling Fall is finally around the corner...
The quieter you become,
the more you can hear.
~Ram Dass
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📸 Haemorhous mexicanus 🪶🌿
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#FridayVibes
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#ArtYear
It's late, mods are asleep.
Post spooky little guys.
#birds #FinchyFriday
A young male house finch is perched on a black shepherd's hook. There are soft white, cream, brown and the beginnings of red feathers.
There are quite a few House Finches beginning to add their new adult red chest feathers. This one has soft fuzzy white peeking around the new colors. #FinchyFriday 🪶
A molting male House Finch in close-up portrait...which makes me snicker.
It's that time of year...
...when my finches are molty. 😍
🕉️ May the wonders of Nature fill your #FinchyFriday! 🤘😶🌫️
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#LookingAtYou
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Blazing sunlight means blazingly backlit borbs...like this male House Finch in profile looking over his shoulder at me like 'you know I'm backlit af, don't even try it...' while perched on the bar thingy that holds our seed feeder below. Now, the controversy: I shared this as a male House Finch, because that's what I think he is now, however I just found him hiding in my Cassin's Finch file (maybe I thought he was fat at the time? idk...) but of course, I'm doubting myself. So I Googled him. And the search says House as the first result, but the AI says Cassin's. I just don't think his crown is 'jacked' enough to be a Cassin's. So I'd rather chance posting him as a House Finch and be wrong, than posting him as a Cassin's and be right. Does that make sense? Ymmv. ;~p Blame the Madman OG.
If you want to shine like a sun,
first burn like a sun.
~A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
🕉️...stay cool this weekend my peeps! 🌿
📸 House Finch, possibly the most backlit one evaaar...🪶
#Scape
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#FourTwenty
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Adult male Cassin's Finches are characterized by rosy pink plumage, with the brightest red on the crown. I also say they are 'chubbier' looking than House Finches, but I'm not body shaming. This one is in the dappled light under the canopy with his crown up and some light shining right on his eyeball.
📸 Cassin's Finches are medium-sized finches with a penchant for high-elevation coniferous forests. 🌲 The male has a pale eye ring, a bright red crown and a rosy-pink chest, with dark streaks on its back.
🕉️ This one has a little #stickhappens. 🌿
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A small purplish brown bird perched on a bird feeder platform.
What a sweetheart! But darn it! I can rarely tell the young house & purple finches apart. #FinchyFriday
The finches spend lots of time at the back corner feeder next to an overgrown corner of fire spike & a yaupon holly. Oh who am I kidding? They clean out all the feeders every single day.#birds 🪶
A very nice portrait of a male House Finch but I really lucked out with his posture because the way he's leaning shows you his beautifully colored RUMP. And you know how I like a nice rump.
🪶📖Male House Finches commonly display a red or reddish-orange RUMP, along with red on their heads & breasts. The intensity of the red color can vary due to diet, with some males exhibiting orange or even yellow hues instead.
🕉️ I only brought it up to show you this #FinchyFriday. 😏
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A female house finch perches in a sun-dappled maple, looking intently off to the left of the frame.
The finch has made it to her perch on the tube feeder, and has a safflower seed in her beak
The finch, still at her perch and with a fresh seed in her beak, turns to side eye the camera.
A big round of applause for THE BRAVEST FINCH who came down from the tree to circle and make several last-second aborted landings at the feeder before summoning the courage to land while I was at the door. 🥲 She didn't even flinch when I (albeit verrrry carefully) shut the door. #FinchyFriday #birds
A very round Christmas-tree-ornament of a bird, er...a real male House Finch is being borby perched on a bare branch in a tree covered in fresh snowfall. His lady is out of focus behind him and stayed that way...
...since I zoomed in for a better look at Mr. red-on-the-head House Finch with that snowy composition filling out the frame. You feel cooler already.
Keeping it short and sweet this #FinchyFriday! ❄️🐦❄️
🕉️ Clocked out early, stay cool this weekend my peeps! 🌿
📸 Haemorhous mexicanus, for a winter #scape! 🪶
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#WeekendVibes
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A red-on-the-head male House Finch posing on a bare branch against blue sky with low, scudding white clouds below.
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
🇺🇸 Happy #FinchyFriday!
📸 Haemorhous mexicanus ♂️🪶🌿
#July4th
#Bluesky
#Bluecrew
#Scape
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A male goldfinch is bright yellow with black wings and tail, there’s also a touch of white here and there and a bright orange bill. Green blades of cattails are in the background and a reed canary grass seed head has caught the bird’s eye.
An American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) sitting on a cattail and checking out that grass seed head.
#FinchyFriday
#FeatheredFriday
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Standing in the same light, but 4 feet to the left, of her mate (not pictured, but I mean the Finch I shared before this one) a lovely female House Finch let's me get a good look at her eye.
Happy #FinchyFriday Bluesky! 🤘😶🌫️ #FridayVibes 🌿
🕉️ May your weekend be filled with the wonders of Nature!
📸 Mrs. Haemorhous mexicanus, I plomised 🪶
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A borby and vibrant male House Finch, and the frame, are half and half in light and shadow as the Finch revels in the flavor of my secret-formula suet as evidenced by the remnants stuck on his bill. Female house finches generally choose their mates based on plumage coloration, preferring males with brighter red coloration. This preference is linked to the availability of carotenoid pigments in the male's diet, which directly influences the intensity of his red plumage. Females appear to gain resource benefits by choosing colorful males, including greater nest attentiveness from the male. I mention all that because I'm going to show you this particular male's choosy lady next... since they visited me together.
To find a balance of Yin and Yang is to discover the secret to a fulfilled life.
☯️
📸 Haemorhous mexicanus 🪶🌿
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A male house finch, resplendent in bright red breeding plumage, perches on a shepherds hook against a backdrop of spruce branches.
A fine visitor for #FinchyFriday #birds
The female Lesser Goldfinch is less yellow than the male, but lovely nonetheless!
"We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression...The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us" ~J. W. von Goethe
💛 May your #FinchyFriday be filled with the wonders of Nature!🤘😶🌫️
📸 Lesser Goldfinch ♀️🪶🌿
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#Birds
If you've followed for long enough, you know I had THE sweetheart setup for a birding spot at the last house. Well, this may grow into my new sweet spot, the evil genius here is I don't even have to move from my desk. (*maniacal cackling) Pictured is the male House Finch that will forever be known in my heart as the first bird to pose for me in this sapling we planted outside my 9-5 window. Hopefully the first of many birb friends...
🤘😍 This #FinchyFriday happens to be the first bird I've caught up in the new trees we planted. This particular sapling is a 'red push pistache' that sits outside my home-office window. 🌿
Which means I'm getting paid while #birding. 😏
FINALLY! 🤣
📸 House Finch ♂️🪶
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Like a film noir scene only with a male House Finch leaning into dramatic light and shadow with some nice bokeh balls in the canopy background.
#FinchyFriday in the shade with some bokeh balls. 💦
It was also BOGO day at the dispensary. 🌿🌿
Win-win.
Have a wonderful weekend! 🤘😶🌫️
📸 Haemorhous mexicanus ♂️🪶
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#BirdPhotography
#EastCoastKin
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2 baby house finches perched on a black seed feeder tray. One house finch is to the left of the glass feeder, the other is to the right.
Tweedledee and Tweedledum - posing so nicely for the camera for #FinchyFriday. We have so many baby house finches, it's ridiculous. #birds 🪶
