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I caught a "wild" Pine Siskin today - i.e. not at a backyard feeder. This one has very nice bright yellow wing bars.
Whitemud North Trail. Edmonton, Alberta.
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Scientific name: Spinus pinus
Common name: Pine siskin
Nombre: Jilguero de los pinos
Lugar de Captura: Jasper, Alberta, Canada
Pine Siskins are an irruptive finch species. Some years, they seem to be everywhere. This year they are quite scarce in my area.
William Hawrelak Park. Edmonton, Alberta.
Parque de Campismo de Vila Flor, no Inverno.
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Scientific name: Setophaga pinus
Common name: Pine warbler
Nombre: Cigüita del pinar
Lugar de la captura: República Dominicana
Almost too close. After they were mostly absent for two years, we are regularly seeing these finches again.
William Hawrelak Park. Edmonton, Alberta.
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The winter Finches we normally see here like Common Redpolls, Pine Grosbeaks, and Pine Siskins, are very scarce this year. This is the only Siskin I observed this year and December 2022 so far.
Hermitage Park. Edmonton, Alberta.
Roios, Vila Flor, Portugal.
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Maçores; Torre de Moncorvo; Trás-os-Montes; Portugal.
Thanks Lenabem-Anna for their beautiful texture.
This is the first time i have seen or captured Pine Siskins in my own yard. This shot was taken from my open bathroom window. Given the great influx of winter finches we have this year, hanging a Niger feed bag certainly helped. This is species number 29 taken from my bathtub blind.
Edmonton, Alberta.
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The sighting of this warbler on a private property east of Edmonton lead to an Alberta rare bird report on ebird. They are common in the eastern pine forests of North America, but not here in central Alberta.
The property owners were very generous. They set up a scheduled window of time in which those interested could enter their property and observe and photograph this local rarity. They asked only that anyone who came to see this bird leave a donation to the local food bank in a bin they provided for that purpose.
There are six records of this species in Alberta including two over winter records. Since this one eats suet as well as seeds, and has shelter, it has a good chance of surviving our central Alberta winter.
Strathcona County, Alberta.
Today in the late afternoon i had an invasion of Pine Siskins in my back yard. There were at least 100. I have never seen this in my yard before.
I had just sprinkled my usual bird food mix on my deck rail and was into my flickr stuff when I noticed dozens of birds through my computer room window that were not House Sparrows or Chickadees. They were all over the deck floor, rails, and shrubs.
This one perched nicely on a rock I have on the rail for just that purpose.
I took this picture from my adjacent open bathroom window while standing in the tub. This is my 39th species of "bathtub blind" shots.
Edmonton, Alberta,
This Beauty stands in "Nationaal Park Hoge Veluwe" in the Netherlands. It has some very interesting and weird branches. This shot was taken during daytime, with the sun breaking thru, at F11 with a Laowa 100mm F/2.8 2X Ultra-macro lens.
I haven't seen a lot of these pointy-beaked little Finches this year except on one particular trail. A couple of other local birders showed me shots of them gathering nesting materials there this week.
Whiemud North Trail. Edmonton, Alberta.