The House Finches...in front of the house!

[deponti]

The

Japanese Maple tree

in front of the house here is not a native species, but is an imported one...and the House Finch (closely related to the Rosefinch that we know in India) is not a native species to Missouri, having been introduced, according to this

Wiki entry in the 1940's, from Mexico and the southwestern United States

Comments

[inspirethoughts]

Oh it's beautiful! I can feel the romance here. :)

[deponti]

All is pink in love and war!

[inspirethoughts]

I am neither in love nor at war. Yet I love romance when I see it. :)

[asakiyume]

Beautiful photos! (Have not yet watched the videos.) I love the one where the female finch is looking straight at us from the arborvitae (the conifer).

[deponti]

Oh, is THAT what it's called? Thanks!Will they grow even larger? I hope so!

[deponti]

Oh, nothing much happens in the videos...I just wanted to get a close-up of that beautiful male, and to get all the 4 bird (I couldn't photograph all them together, I had to pan on the video.)

Great shots!

[dakini_bones]

Awesome composition and close-ups!!

Re: Great shots!

[deponti]

Oh...since I am not able (for about a week now) to email photos to my Photobucket id through Picasa, I am using the old-fashioned method or emailing the pics as attachments, and this is resulting in very large jpeg files on my photobucket id...and so the pics I post will be very large too, until Picasa repairs the problem!

Finches

[ext_222733]

Beautiful fellas indeed. As you have mentioned, the male is really well camouflaged in the brances and the background. Too good..

Ram

Re: Finches

[deponti]

I'm enjoying the stereo building of nests each day :)

[ext_143480]

Very nice! Just saw this as I was on a slow connection in Assam all of last week...
-g