House finches are the perfect urban bird. They would willingly trade an empty lot filled with grasses and bushes and trees for a nice new house with a bird feeder. They are fond (understatement) of ...

House finches are some of the most numerous birds at my feeder right now, always there in cheery little groups of bright red males and subtly brown-streaked females. They are fun to take photos of ...

It seems like I have written a lot about birds lately, perhaps because even in our coldest weather many are still around and visible. On one of the recent sub-zero days, a group of birds in my ...

There is still time to plant vegetable transplants including broccoli, cabbage, kale, Swiss Chard, mustard greens, ...

We are prone to pay scant attention to the ever-present house finches at our backyard bird feeders. They’re not the most eye-catching birds. But the males attract the females' attention with a bit of ...

I’ve been trying for several years to get good pictures that show the differences between purple finches and house finches, the two species of reddish finches that live in or migrate through Berks ...

Our final bird in a short series on LBJ’s “little brown jobs” is the House Finch, a locally common bird that was nonexistent here prior to the 1980’s. Once found only in the southwestern United States ...

A great opportunity has come to many people’s way: the opportunity to stay at home. There is a fine line between feeling suffocatingly housebound and being filled with relish for your domestic ...

While the house finch remains one of the 10 most common backyard birds in the U.S., its population of millions has been cut in half by house finch eye disease over the past 25 years and likely will ...

A friend told me about a bunch of handsome “red-faced brown birds” crowding around his birdfeeders, accompanied by similar-looking drab brown birds. What he saw were male house finches in their rich ...

House finches are some of the most numerous birds at my feeder right now, always there in cheery little groups of bright red males and subtly brown-streaked females. They are fun to take photos of ...