Hi, folks.
For the past four days there's been a pretty yellow finch flying up against the glass windows on the northwest side of the house in the morning and again just before dusk. It seems to favor only the large picture window, the kitchen window, and the back door with the glass panes, all within a stretch of about 20 feet.
Does anyone here know about this seemingly unusual behavior?
I'm afraid the little thing will wear itself out and die. It's not hitting the glass hard, just fluttering around, back and forth amongst the windows.
The kids have recently stuck some stained-glass-type tulip flowers on one of the windows, and we thought the bird might be attracted to that, but it's going for other windows, as well.
The yellow finch has only rarely been sighted at our house - one day last spring for a few hours around the finch feeder on the other side of the house, but otherwise, they haven't hung around.
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About me: I'm a 50 year old married dad with three teenage children. I work at home frequently and I'm in the yard a lot admiring what I consider to be the garden of Eden. We've got mockingbirds, hummingbirds, brown thrasher, hawks, owls, whip-poor-will, pileated woodpecker, redheaded woodpecker, common flicker, wrens (that entertain us by hatching offspring around the house), eastern bluebird, blue jay, eastern phoebe (that returns every spring to find a mate to build a nest on the front porch), and other little birds that we haven't identified. Plus, there are deer, armodilla, coyote, fox, five kinds of lizard or skink, tree frogs, rattlesnakes, etc... - but those are for a different forum.
Thanks for any insight about the yellow finch behavior.
-Trip
For the past four days there's been a pretty yellow finch flying up against the glass windows on the northwest side of the house in the morning and again just before dusk. It seems to favor only the large picture window, the kitchen window, and the back door with the glass panes, all within a stretch of about 20 feet.
Does anyone here know about this seemingly unusual behavior?
I'm afraid the little thing will wear itself out and die. It's not hitting the glass hard, just fluttering around, back and forth amongst the windows.
The kids have recently stuck some stained-glass-type tulip flowers on one of the windows, and we thought the bird might be attracted to that, but it's going for other windows, as well.
The yellow finch has only rarely been sighted at our house - one day last spring for a few hours around the finch feeder on the other side of the house, but otherwise, they haven't hung around.
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About me: I'm a 50 year old married dad with three teenage children. I work at home frequently and I'm in the yard a lot admiring what I consider to be the garden of Eden. We've got mockingbirds, hummingbirds, brown thrasher, hawks, owls, whip-poor-will, pileated woodpecker, redheaded woodpecker, common flicker, wrens (that entertain us by hatching offspring around the house), eastern bluebird, blue jay, eastern phoebe (that returns every spring to find a mate to build a nest on the front porch), and other little birds that we haven't identified. Plus, there are deer, armodilla, coyote, fox, five kinds of lizard or skink, tree frogs, rattlesnakes, etc... - but those are for a different forum.
Thanks for any insight about the yellow finch behavior.
-Trip