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 movement of ...

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 since ...

CHATHAM, N.Y. As the moody month of March oscillates between cold wintery days and days of warm sunshine, tree buds swell, lawns turn greenish and blackbirds herald the dawn. Spring is coming, but ...

GRAND FORKS – The pine siskin is another of those wanderers that sometimes show up here and sometimes don’t. This week, siskins showed up. I wanted to report that siskins “swarmed” my feeder, but that ...

Maintaining and observing a bird feeder throughout the winter can sound like a generous and kindly activity to help birds cope with the cold season. Though the seeds that we place on the feeder and ...

A small bird with a streaked breast reminiscent of a house finch, but a hint of yellow that might suggest an American goldfinch. This is the beautiful pine siskin! An amazing species for anyone's ...

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