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Pine Siskin!

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James Tyler Bell

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James Tyler Bell

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Mon, 5 Jul 2010 06:32:40 -0700

This morning after Jane Kostenko and I came back from a walk, we were eating breakfast and checking out the feeders. There was a male House Finch on one feeder and he was joined by what we initially presumed was a female. It didn't look quite right and when we looked at it through binoculars, sure enough, it turned out to be a Pine Siskin. We haven't had many in our yard before and they've always been in the winter. We took some documentation photos which even at 1600 ISO and using a 125 mm lens, were still not great. I've uploaded the two best shots to Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8671193@N08/4764002262/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8671193@N08/4763999320/
 
Tyler Bell

California, Maryland