The flash of deep red at the bird feeder might have you guessing. Is it a Purple Finch? Something more exotic? Identifying ...

This morning, with nearly an inch of snow as far as I could see from my home office, I sat nursing a cup of coffee and watched the birds at our window feeders. The sunflower heart feeder had a pair of ...

A male house finch feasts on Hawthorne berries. House finch females lack strong facial markings and are an overall grayish-brown color. Males vary in color from orange-red to a deeper purple-red, but ...

If you hang a bird feeder outside your home, there’s a good chance that your first visitor will be some kind of finch. We have five kinds of finches in Marin: the reddish house finch and purple finch, ...

I think there is no better way to start a column about purple finches than to quote Roger Tory Peterson’s description of this bird, he called them “sparrows dipped in raspberry juice.” I saw my first ...

Our final bird in a short series on LBJ’s “little brown jobs” is the House Finch, a locally common bird that was nonexistent here prior to the 1980’s. Once found only in the southwestern United States ...

The "Winter Finch Forecast" is an annual attempt by Ontario ornithologist, Ron Pittaway, to predict the movement of northern finches based upon the seed crops of their favored trees. With assistance ...

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 ...

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 ...

The recent heavy snowstorms that created havoc for people in the northern half of the country also may have pushed a group of pretty birds called purple finches to the Houston area. The little birds ...

I think there is no better way to start a column about purple finches than to quote Roger Tory Peterson’s description of this bird, he called them “sparrows dipped in raspberry juice.” I saw my first ...