Birds in New Jersey 2014

27 June 2014. Rock doves continue to arrive in pairs. Here's one in traditional "city pigeon" finery.

 

Male house sparrow at top; female house finch (striped belly!) at bottom left.

 

Now it's common to see about eight different bird species every day. Here's the juvenile cardinal.

 

Two female house finches on the left; male house finch on the right. Males and females sometimes arrive in pairs
and feed at the same time. One day we even saw a pair take turns feeding from the same opening... maybe it
was their honeymoon?

 

It takes a house finch about three seconds to crack open a sunflower seed, get at its meat, and then drop the empty shell
to the ground.

 

Yet another rock dove variant: piebald.

 

Other ways to tell if it's a house finch or house sparrow: A female house sparrow has a bit of yellow in its beak,
and its legs are more pinkish. So, that's a house sparrow at bottom left. The striped belly of the bird above it
means it must be a female house finch.

 

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Deer, April 2014 >>



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