Nature is not a Place to Visit, it’s Home
Adaptable, colorful, and cheery-voiced, House Finches are common from coast to coast. Native to the Southwest, they were recent arrivals in the East. New York pet shop owners, who had been selling the finches illegally, released their birds in 1940 to escape prosecution. The finches survived, and began to colonize the New York suburbs. Fifty years later they had advanced halfway across the continent, meeting their western kin on the Great Plains.
(Nikon, 500 mm + TC 2.0, 1/250 @ f/10, ISO 4500)
Nature is not a Place to Visit, it’s Home
Adaptable, colorful, and cheery-voiced, House Finches are common from coast to coast. Native to the Southwest, they were recent arrivals in the East. New York pet shop owners, who had been selling the finches illegally, released their birds in 1940 to escape prosecution. The finches survived, and began to colonize the New York suburbs. Fifty years later they had advanced halfway across the continent, meeting their western kin on the Great Plains.
(Nikon, 500 mm + TC 2.0, 1/250 @ f/10, ISO 4500)