Re:[cayugabirds-l] Goldfinches molting in mid-January?

2021-01-16 Thread hollis.white
notice this or is because i live the north country.Hollis WhiteAkwesasne, NY Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy Tablet Original message From: Dave Nutter Date: 1/15/21 5:17 PM (GMT-05:00) To: CayugaBirds-L b Subject: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Goldfinches molting in mid-January

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Goldfinches molting in mid-January?

2021-01-15 Thread anneb . clark
Some of mine are similar but my impression without photo documentation is that some never fully lost yellow patches or black flecks. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 15, 2021, at 5:18 PM, Dave Nutter wrote: > > On a recommendation I looked at Macaulay’s winter photos and saw plenty of >

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Goldfinches molting in mid-January?

2021-01-15 Thread Dave Nutter
On a recommendation I looked at Macaulay’s winter photos and saw plenty of variety but no sense of whether the sample is biased for or against molting birds. Then I recalled I own a reference, a bander’s ID guide. For American Goldfinch it says: “Continuous, limited molting occurs throughout

[cayugabirds-l] Goldfinches molting in mid-January?

2021-01-15 Thread Dave Nutter
For the last 10 months I have sharply curtailed my travel, both on account of the pandemic and to eliminate my birding carbon footprint. Meanwhile I have been paying closer attention to feeder birds than ever before. Maybe other folks who have longer experience carefully noting who comes to