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 ...

Pine siskins have been few this season, with low numbers on some Christmas Bird Counts and one on others. But since one of the few showed up at my feeder array, I feel justified in naming the pine ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

DEAR JOAN: I read the letter from David about dead pine siskins. You may recall that these little guys made a sweeping return to Northern California about three or four years ago and brought with them ...

When the morning light this past Thursday morning enabled me to see the feeders, I saw what I had expected to see. The black oil sunflower feeders were completely empty and the nyjer feeder only had ...

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 ...

Pine siskins have been few this season, with low numbers on some Christmas Bird Counts and one on others. But since one of the few showed up at my feeder array, I feel justified in naming the pine ...