Good Morning Handsome
This Male House Finch has been wooing the females with his dazzling good looks and bright color. I’m hopeful he’ll find a female and he and the Mrs. will soon occupy one of my backyard birdhouses.
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The House Finch:
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
(200-600 @ 600mm, 1/250 @ f/6.3, ISO 640, edited to taste)
Good Morning Handsome
This Male House Finch has been wooing the females with his dazzling good looks and bright color. I’m hopeful he’ll find a female and he and the Mrs. will soon occupy one of my backyard birdhouses.
____________________________
The House Finch:
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
(200-600 @ 600mm, 1/250 @ f/6.3, ISO 640, edited to taste)