HELLO YELLOW BIRD

 "How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun..." -Vincent van Gogh.

 Yellow bird showed up the other day. Playing in the bird bath.

 At first I thought it was a canary. But not a canary. The beak was all wrong. A finch of some sort.

 And after  studying it and going to the Cornell Bird ID online, figured out.......

 That it must be a Female American Goldfinch. (Hoping it is. Pretty sure....)

 The males have black on their heads and black shot thru their wings. The females are greyish with Olive on the head, lighter yellow, a notched tail and that ever present orange beak.

                   "Yellow objects appear to be gold...." -Aristotle.

 She hopped around the birdbath for an hour.

 They occupy the States, and the border of Canada. They have a couple of nestings a year and molt .

 Living about 3- 6 years, one was recorded as living to 11 years of age.

     Goldfinches love seeds provided by nice humans. 

 But they also like maple sap, and pine seeds and whatever they can forage.

 This one seemed out of place. Like she was going somewhere.....

 Goldfinches migrate to south of the border and Mexico for the winter.

 But for one morning, this yellow bird splashed and splashed and played in the bird bath.....then she was off. 

 " There is a sun, a light I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!" --Vincent van Gogh

Photographs 2019