Be Kind... Every Creature You Meet is Fighting a Battle
I was finally able to capture a portrait of this Male House Finch who frequents my backyard for a bit of seed and a refreshing bath.
If you look carefully at his beak, you will see that the upper portion has been broken off. This somewhat limits his ability to eat, but he seems to be able to successfully grab pieces of sunflower kernels at the bird feeder.
Adaptable, colorful, and cheery-voiced, House Finches are common from coast to coast today. Native to the Southwest, they are 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. By 50 years later they had advanced halfway across the continent, meeting their western kin on the Great Plains.
- Wikipedia
(600mm, 1/1600 @ f/6.3, ISO 2500)
Be Kind... Every Creature You Meet is Fighting a Battle
I was finally able to capture a portrait of this Male House Finch who frequents my backyard for a bit of seed and a refreshing bath.
If you look carefully at his beak, you will see that the upper portion has been broken off. This somewhat limits his ability to eat, but he seems to be able to successfully grab pieces of sunflower kernels at the bird feeder.
Adaptable, colorful, and cheery-voiced, House Finches are common from coast to coast today. Native to the Southwest, they are 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. By 50 years later they had advanced halfway across the continent, meeting their western kin on the Great Plains.
- Wikipedia
(600mm, 1/1600 @ f/6.3, ISO 2500)