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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Maintaining and observing a bird feeder throughout the winter can sound like a generous and kindly activity to help birds cope with the cold season. Though the seeds that we place on the feeder and ...