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| The pot hangs from the other side of the pergolla outside our bedroom window |
My wife thinks she's a House Finch—probably female because she lacks the "cheerful red head and breast of males" (according to allaboutbirds.org—see photo of male at bottom). She allows, though, that it might be a young male whose colors have not yet emerged.
An old friend of ours and fellow bird-watcher thinks the bird's a female. He asks whether she has a nest in the pot. No, she's looking for a sedum leaf to eat, says my wife. "House Finches killed the plant by eating its leaves; maybe it'll be back next year."
Here's a male House Finch (photo from allaboutbirds.org):
Oh, that photo I took through the field scope in December!
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| A male-female pair of House Finches? |
The dcontinuous shooting feature is great.
ReplyDeleteCarolyn's Coolpix has an "interval timer"; you can set it to take a photo every 30 seconds, every one minute, every two minutes, and I forget what else. For, like, photographing clouds, sunsets, the moon....
ReplyDeleteAnd I've now discovered how to set the date and time off so they don't appear in the photo (the way they did on our trip to Bulgaria).
By the way, I read in the paper this morning that the half-century-old ferry (or whatever it was) that capsized in the Volga River recently (yesterday?) was named "Bulgaria."