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lesser goldfinch

  1. lesser goldfinch

    lesser goldfinch

    A lesser goldfinch (smaller than the American goldfinch) takes off from a wire fence. It was part of a large flock feeding in a field of wildflowers.
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    • Comments: 7
    • Category: North America
  2. Lesser Goldfinch (female)

    Lesser Goldfinch (female)

    Feeding on teasle seed heads
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    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  3. American Goldfinch - Lesser Goldfinch

    American Goldfinch - Lesser Goldfinch

    2/3 of the genus Spinus. The lighter colored bird on top is the American goldfinch. Pretty neat of them to hang out together.
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    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  4. Lesser Goldfinches

    Lesser Goldfinches

    A couple of males darting about
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    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  5. Lesser Goldfinch

    Lesser Goldfinch

    It was total luck that I caught this finch taking off.
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    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  6. Lesser Goldfinch (male)

    Lesser Goldfinch (male)

    Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria psaltria) male pulling Texas Thistle apart.
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    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  7. A Puffy Goldfinch

    A Puffy Goldfinch

    Lesser Goldfinch — Puffing up to keep warm on a cool and overcast afternoon.
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    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  8. Lesser Goldfinch

    Lesser Goldfinch

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    • big morongo lesser goldfinch southern california spinus psaltria usa
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  9. Lesser Goldfinch (male)

    Lesser Goldfinch (male)

    Lesser Goldfinch (Carduelis psaltria psaltria) male. Black-backed color morph at a water drip.
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    • Comments: 11
    • Category: North America
  10. Lesser Goldfinch

    Lesser Goldfinch

    This is an adult male. Females and immatures are duller and lack the dark cap. Unlike the similar American Goldfinch, Lesser Goldfinch lacks distinctive breeding and non-breeding plumages. Instead it keeps the same plumage year-round. Note the yellow undertail coverts which also help distinguish...
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  11. Nap Time for a Pretty Lady

    Nap Time for a Pretty Lady

    Lesser Goldfinch — Taking a nap in the early afternoon. Mixed sun and shade. I used NX Studio to adjust levels and sharpen.
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    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  12. Handsome Male — Lesser Goldfinch

    Handsome Male — Lesser Goldfinch

    Lesser Goldfinch — There is a year-round handful of these goldfinches at my feeder. This one paused long enough in a bush for me to get a more natural setting. I used Nikon NX Studio to sharpen the finch and reduce the brightness of the foliage about one stop.
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  13. Lesser Goldfinch

    Lesser Goldfinch

    This little bird may be coming out of molt. I think she is showing some small and new wing feathers.
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    • Comments: 5
    • Category: North America
  14. Basking

    Basking

    A Lesser Goldfinch basking in the evening rays.
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    • Comments: 7
    • Category: North America
  15. Lesser Goldfinch

    Lesser Goldfinch

    This is an adult male visiting a water dish. Back color varies geographically. It is typically green with dark streaks in California and Arizona. The dark streaks become broader and more extensive in Texas where the nominate black-backed race (S. p. psaltria) seen here occurs.
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  16. Lesser goldfinch

    Lesser goldfinch

    We only get the bland version of the American goldfinch here in these parts, but as a trade-off we get these beauties.
    • knnthdhrvy
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    • crescent bend nature park lesser goldfinch spinus psaltria
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: North America
  17. Lesser Goldfinch at flower #2

    Lesser Goldfinch at flower #2

    This is the same bird; same flower; I left the lighting more or less as right out of the camera, instead of softening the contrast as with the similar frame. Not sure I like the contrast so heavy but it makes for nice comparison of processing.
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    • Comments: 8
    • Category: North America
  18. Lesser Goldfinch at flower

    Lesser Goldfinch at flower

    She sure loved the seeds off this yard flower, and kept at it for a good long shoot.
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    • Category: North America
  19. Lesser Goldfinch

    Lesser Goldfinch

    Lesser Goldfinch at feeder, Crescent Bend Nature Park, 2015.
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  20. Lesser Goldfinch

    Lesser Goldfinch

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    • Comments: 16
    • Category: North America
  21. Lesser Goldfinch

    Lesser Goldfinch

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    • Category: North America
  22. Lesser Goldfinch

    Lesser Goldfinch

    A Lesser Goldfinch on a feeder.
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    • Category: North America
  23. Lesser Goldfinches

    Lesser Goldfinches

    A pair of Lesser Goldfinches tussling near the bird feeder.
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    • Category: North America
  24. Lesser Goldfinch

    Lesser Goldfinch

    A Lesser Goldfinch in Northern California
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    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  25. Lesser Goldfinch

    Lesser Goldfinch

    Another bird from the "Magical" garden at Fort Mason on my final day in SF.
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    • Comments: 5
    • Category: North America
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