Help with birds!

[Fyddler]

Got my best bird geek on it. I assume Langley BC area?

[Bigwoods]

Looks like female Goldfinches. Should be seeing bright yellow males also.

[S. Heisley]

They look to be goldfinches. In the winter, even the male goldfinches turn more brown and greenish yellow. If they stick around, you'll be able to watch them change to their summer plumage this spring. Goldfinches like thistle seed. Maybe your new seed mix has that or something like that in it.

[nevadatear]

Nope, google pine siskin. The male has the little bit of yellow shown on the right and the female is the brown. By this time of year the goldfinch should have much more yellow on it plus a black cap. Siskins will do something where they come in large numbers one year called interruptions, then you dont see them for years. They are always at the same feeders as goldfinches, house finches and sparrows, so it can be hard to seperate them. Look at the brown and white stripes on their bellies. This streaking is fairly sistinct and uniform. On the house finch, which can look very similar in the female, is more blurry, with a thicker bill. Remember, we built our tear to do more birding! Thanks for the id fun.

Ps if you go to the cornell website, there is a song and call feature. This will confirm it. Listen to the call and see if it is the same as your birds!
Also your feed looks to be millet. Siskins will eat millet, although they will eat thistle, but goldfinches want thisle!

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/pine_siskin/lifehistory

[S. Heisley]

I was hoping Debbie and Randy would report in. Thanks! I learned something new!

[nevadatear]

Glad to help. Gotta love those birds!

[Roo Dog]

Just had a honey eater roaring around our kitchen, flew in through an open door, much to our dogs excitement.
Managed to arrest it mid circuit and flang it out through the door again, much to the dogs disappointment.
Not an uncommon event.
Nice day here, 90 degrees, clear skies, breeze out of the north east, coming from the inland.
It's all good.
Take it easy.
RD

[nevadatear]

Oh my how i would love to see a honeycreeper it honey eater. I WILL come to oz someday!

[nevadatear]

That should be OR honeyeater

[Oreellyfool]

I remember when I went to Western Washington U for College, there was a myth running around campus those black squirrels we a lab experiment gone wrong a long time ago... I do however remember they were crazy and were not afraid of you. They would run up and steal your food right in front of you.

[Greg M]

OMG! Your dog's a racist

[Roo Dog]

I read this remark somewhere just recently.

"A humming bird is just a regular bird that has forgotten the words."

Take it easy.

RD

[Roo Dog]

The black white and yellow bird is a New Holland Honey Eater and the little green one is known as a Silver Eye.
Our yard has a lot of the wee beasties flitting around plus a number of other varieties.

RD

[nevadatear]

Oh! I so want to see these guys!

[Roo Dog]

A pair of Top Knot pigeons.
I scatter some bread and seed out for these blokes. We get up to 6 or more hanging about.
RD