Fancy Fringe
This year the Purple Finches have come to our front porch light to build a nest for their brood. It's been nine years since a nest has been built there, and then they were House Finches.
It's a very different style of nest, much more decorative than the woven dry twigs the house finches made. The female did all the work while the male stood guard, and she pulled some material from the old seat cushions from the settee below the light to line the interior.
What the nest of 2013 looked like:
Fancy Fringe
This year the Purple Finches have come to our front porch light to build a nest for their brood. It's been nine years since a nest has been built there, and then they were House Finches.
It's a very different style of nest, much more decorative than the woven dry twigs the house finches made. The female did all the work while the male stood guard, and she pulled some material from the old seat cushions from the settee below the light to line the interior.
What the nest of 2013 looked like: