So I hopped online and searched for an inexpensive hummingbird feeder that resembles the flowers growing in my yard. $40 $32 ...

One species that has recently become regular in many neighbourhoods and gardens is the house wren. This species began colonizing the Sunshine Coast in the late ‘90s and only became common in the last ...

Also of note during the chilly early mornings of February, these birds were the first to arrive in the pre-dawn. In the subzero days, they remained. Though they are common, pine siskins do not ...

It was a pine siskin (Spinus pinus)!!! This time I was looking at the birds through my camera (I won’t make that mistake again for a long time) and the shutter started firing in high-speed mode so ...

Last week, Chenango County resident and Chenango County Bird Club member Michael Foor-Pessin shared a chance bird irruption and sightings of the juvenile Pine Siskins. It has been two decades ...

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 ...

These birds are perfectly suited to survive the harsh winter climate of the boreal forest; cold and snow do not bother them, but food availability does. We are seeing an irruption of pine siskins ...

Pine siskins have come south into the metro area ... Paging through notes about birds seen here in previous winters I found a day in February 2004 where I wrote we saw 28 cardinals in our yard ...

Isn’t it great when our winter bird feeders are overrun with common redpolls, pine siskins and purple finches? When pine grosbeaks feed voraciously on fruit still hanging on trees? And ...

It has hung around since the first snowfall, and last weekend’s blizzard didn’t dislodge the bird. The pine siskin breeds across North America from southeastern Alaska to Nova Scotia and ...

Like other nomadic finches, pine siskins follow food sources, often traveling in large flocks. While migratory birds tend to move in north-south patterns, these seed-seekers travel more west-east ...