I spied our usual bird feeder guest, the gold finch. The females have a muted golden brown coloring and the males the bright golden yellow. Finches are abundant in open woodlands, brushy, weedy fields, farms, roadsides and every one's garden out here in Maryland. They flock to our feeder in the morning and feed themselves full but like to be in group feeding. They dance up and down each feeder post and on to the other side of the yard to the other feeder. They are nice to watch. We feed them thistle seeds from the birder store. Their call sounds like tsee-tsi-tsi-tsit , song wording from the book Bird Songs, 250 birds in song.
