House Finch & Sparrow

We welcome our new guests - House Finch and Sparrow. Cindy and I enjoy watching them using our feeders at our back yard.

Couple videos to share - taken this morning while I was working on the garden... The red head is an adult male house finch.. female house finches has brown back and streak fronts..

At one time, there was a full house on the feeders....

Some facts about House finch... Source from allaboutbirds.com

Keys to identification 

Finches

• Size & Shape

  House Finches are small-bodied finches with fairly large beaks and somewhat long, flat heads. The wings are short, making the tail seem long by comparison. Many finches have distinctly notched tails, but the House Finch has a relatively shallow notch in its tail.

• Color Pattern

  Adult males are rosy red around the face and upper breast, with streaky brown back, belly and tail. In flight, the red rump is conspicuous. Adult females aren’t red; they are plain grayish-brown with thick, blurry streaks and an indistinctly marked face.

• Behavior

  House Finches are gregarious birds that collect at feeders or perch high in nearby trees. When they’re not at feeders, they feed on the ground, on weed stalks, or in trees. They move fairly slowly and sit still as they shell seeds by crushing them with rapid bites. Flight is bouncy, like many finches.

• Habitat

  House Finches frequent city parks, backyards, urban centers, farms, and forest edges across the continent. In the western U.S., you’ll also find House Finches in their native habitats of deserts, grassland, chaparral, and open woods
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