(He fears me...)
(But will accept my offerings. Yum.)
While I had the sliding glass door open, I figured I would take a couple pictures of the goldfinches in the apricot tree, which is flowering beautifully. Yellow birds, pink flowers. Gorgeous. I got a couple of them, although they were shy of the camera beeps, and entirely missed the VERY yellow fellow except through the kitchen window screen.
Prettiest. Ever.
Blurriest. Ever. But also beautiful.
What I have failed UTTERLY to photograph are our two albino goldfinches, of whose presence I was totally unaware until today. Here's what they look like, images stolen from the web.
The partial albino looks a lot like this:
The seriously melanin-deprived "whitefinch" looks more like a white finch with a yellow blush and red eyes. I had a link, but I eated it. :)
Anyway, thought I'd share.
2 comments:
First of all... shame on you for having flowering trees. There's still snow here. Bad you. Bad.
Secondly, what kind of freakish blue jays do you have out there in da hills?
This is how a blue jay is supposed to look doncha know:
http://www.chickendancetrail.com/images/gallery/Blue%20Jay.jpg
Good eye -- ours are California Scrub Jays. Yes, really. That's why his name is Scrubbles. And pretty much all of our jays are called Scrubbles interchangeably, even though we can tell some individuals apart...
We also have Stellar's Jays -- not right here, but everywhere we go camping. They are bee-yootiful.
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