Not sure why you'd didn't get hummingbirds. They were certainly abundant this year, but as always, they show up in some places and not in others.
I'd be surprised if you didn't get a mockingbird back before spring.
Showing posts with label House finch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label House finch. Show all posts
Monday, October 31, 2011
Where have our house finches gone? Mockingbird is gone too.
House Finches are rather odd in how they move from place to place throughout the year. We don't fully understand their shifting populations (they're not migrating, just shifting locations back and forth.) 
Not sure why you'd didn't get hummingbirds. They were certainly abundant this year, but as always, they show up in some places and not in others.
I'd be surprised if you didn't get a mockingbird back before spring.
Not sure why you'd didn't get hummingbirds. They were certainly abundant this year, but as always, they show up in some places and not in others.
I'd be surprised if you didn't get a mockingbird back before spring.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
House Finches
A reader asked: Could we have a house finch that is orange?
My answer: House Finches do vary greatly in the spectrum of red-orange tones, as you have noticed. We don't know as much as we'd like to know about why that happens, except that it has something to do with diet. Anyway, I trust some Ph.D. student will someday make that topic his/her dissertation.
This finch was photographed in southern Arizona last spring.
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