GRAND FORKS – The pine siskin is another of those wanderers that sometimes show up here and sometimes don’t. This week, siskins showed up. I wanted to report that siskins “swarmed” my feeder, but that ...

The cold has moved in and, for the first time this season, we have experienced subzero temperatures. This brought on the final step into winter. We have made much progress toward the present chill -- ...

I wandered deep into a spruce fir forest, far from a road, not far from a small lake, and sat down in the shadows to see what would happen. In just a few minutes, a party broke out — a dinner party. A ...

Like many Northlanders, I keep bird feeders going all winter. I find interesting and entertaining the antics of the birds and squirrels that come to visit throughout the cold season. Looking out to ...

The goldfinches at my feeder have felt more than a little crowded lately. Competing strangers with tiny, sharp bills and pushy attitudes have arrived in enormous numbers from the far north. Diminutive ...

Could you please tell me what birds are in the attached photos? A whole flock of them just landed on my feeders. –Nina, Rick, George, Cindy, Elissa, Steve, Sheryl, Mark, Amy…Cape Cod, MA They’re Pine ...

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Three years ago, massive flocks of pine siskins converged on my bird feeders. The thumb-size, streaked brown birds swirled around my head and fed out of my hand back then. Such a southward movement of ...

No sooner do I fill bird feeders than pine siskins swarm around me, alighting on feeding perches within arm’s reach. On a frigid morning, I held out my hand with a palmful of birdseed. A finch ...

New Jersey birders are in for quite a treat this fall and winter, as we are now experiencing an invasion of pine siskins, a tiny finch that is a cousin to our state bird, the American goldfinch. Pine ...