One rainy morning a week ago, I hear a beautiful bird song that I cannot quite identify. It’s longish, sweet and melodic. From in the bedroom, I glance over at the feeders and there’s the usual ...

Looking out my window this morning, I can see about a dozen goldfinches. Finches, in the family Fringillidae, are relatives of crossbills, grosbeaks, siskins and redpolls. Nice family. The birds in ...

This is a tale of two finches — actually two different finch species — and the American redbud. There’s a certain time of year when the native redbud is blooming, with its tiny pink flowers in ...

The recent heavy snowstorms that created havoc for people in the northern half of the country also may have pushed a group of pretty birds called purple finches to the Houston area. The little birds ...

The current record for the number of birds observed in my yard in during December is 31 species and that record was set just last year. On my first day of observations, I managed to pick up 18 species ...

Days of late March are marked by more light than darkness. With sunrise at about 7 a.m. and the sunsets at nearly 7:30 p.m., the 12-and-a-half hours of daylight continue the spring things that began ...

The purple finch is rarely seen in this area during the summer months as very few purple finch nest in southern Wisconsin. Most breed in the northern half of the state. At this time of year, those ...

In September, as summer yields to fall, most of the colorful birds that breed in our region during spring and summer head south for warmer locales. The departure of ruby-throated hummingbirds, ...

We had no sooner talked about American goldfinches last week than an uncommon finch was showing up at people’s feeders all over town. It’s a purple finch that breeds from New England to Appalachia, ...

The "Winter Finch Forecast" is an annual attempt by Ontario ornithologist, Ron Pittaway, to predict the movement of northern finches based upon the seed crops of their favored trees. With assistance ...

This is the time of the vernal equinox, the first day of spring. Though listed as the beginning of spring on the calendar, the actual arrival of this season does not follow the dates on the calendar ...