What a treat it must have been for Michelle Gaggiotti to look out of the window into her Newcastle yard in Virginia Beach and see several rare purple finches visiting her feeder! These rosy red ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Purple finches are often regular visitors to our feeders. The gorgeous males ...

This is a tale of two finches — actually two different finch species — and the American redbud. There’s a certain time of year when the native redbud is blooming, with its tiny pink flowers in ...

Have you noticed that there is a bumper crop of cones on most of our conifers? The importance of this is that our deciduous ...

For 143 consecutive days -- from Dec. 5, 2007, through April 25 -- purple finches came to my bird feeders in Hocking County. The highest number was 44 on April 13. On the two days before leaving, ...

We had no sooner talked about American goldfinches last week than an uncommon finch was showing up at people’s feeders all over town. It’s a purple finch that breeds from New England to Appalachia, ...

I’ve been trying for several years to get good pictures that show the differences between purple finches and house finches, the two species of reddish finches that live in or migrate through Berks ...

In September, as summer yields to fall, most of the colorful birds that breed in our region during spring and summer head south for warmer locales. The departure of ruby-throated hummingbirds, ...

Jul. 16—Some finches are common and easy to spot, while others can be tricky to identify. Laura Hulbert, a Tahlequah resident and bird enthusiast, said Fringillidae — the family finches fall into — ...

We don’t get the variety of birds in our yard during the winter months that we do in the summer. Still, we have a pretty loyal following that show every day to munch on the morsels we put out for them ...

The latter part of August 2020 brought an impressive irruption of red-breasted nuthatch to Iowa, with many sightings continuing into early September. It appears other species might be irrupting into ...

In September, as summer yields to fall, most of the colorful birds that breed in our region during spring and summer head south for warmer locales. The departure of ruby-throated hummingbirds, ...