"For us, our house is not insentient matter—it has a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals, and solicitudes, and deep sympathies; it is of us, and we are in its confidence, and live in its grace and in the peace of its benediction. We never come home from an absence that its face does not light up and speak out its eloquent welcome—and we can not enter it unmoved."
—Mark Twain, 1896
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

American Goldfinch


I took these pics through my front window so they're not very clear, plus I had to hurry so they wouldn't fly away. These are Wilsonia pusilla * Carduelis tristis, and they are our first visitors of the new spring season.

Notice the Rhododendron blossoms just starting to open.

* The Dude mistakenly thought these birds to be Wilson's Warblers as the markings are similar (and we are new to the bird watching thingy). After having more carefully looked at them, he noticed the white markings on the wings, and per his book, Birds of Oregon and his Naturalist Guide, he discovered our first visitors were not Wilson's Warblers after all, but American Goldfinch.
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