Pine Siskin
Spinus pinus
Pine Siskin is a member of the finch family.
It is a close relative to the Goldfinches and the Redpoll.
Eggs: #3 to 4, light bluish white, thinly dotted with several tones of brown.
Its favorite environment include shrublands and forests as well as country-style gardens and groves.
The throat, nape and head of the Pine Siskins are puffy and delicately patterned with dark brown.
They preferred food are plant components, insects and seeds.
They are extremely social birds.
When Pine siskins eat on conifers, they generally will hang upside down from the crowns of the cones.
Cardinal
Cardinal, Male
Cardinalis cardinalis
A bird that feeds on both vegetable and animal contents.
Also known as "redbirds.
Appointed the official bird of no less than 7 U.S. states.
The birds consume seeds, fruit, grain, sap and insects.
They don't migrate.
Are brisk songbirds and sing a assortment of tunes.
Eggs are generally 3 per season.
Males can be combative when guarding their territory.
It is one of the most identifiable birds in the North America.
They are fed upon by cats, owls and small hawks.
The cone-shaped of the cardinal's beak brands this bird a seed eater.
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Sitta canadensis
- The Red-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta canadensis, has a large head, has short legs and a flat body.
- Is a tiny songbird.
- It reproduces in coniferous forests across Alaska, Canada and the western and northeastern United States.
- A deep cluster of energy at your feeder.
- The red-breasted nuthatch puts down generally 4 - 7 eggs.
- Spiders and insects are the primary foods in the summer. Throughout winter, Red-breasted Nuthatches eat lots of insects that they force from food spaces in barks narrow depression.
- Are more friendly, talk socially perpetually among themselves.
- Red-breasted Nuthatch is the most migrant of the 4 species of Nuthatches.