A cold summer turned to a cold fall here,
no place for a spring goldfinch
looking for news from the sun.
 

        The blog carnival for bird lovers, I and the Bird, is celebrating its 100th edition. Nice to see them give Wild Light the “House Sparrow to the Death Award” for my last post, Chance meeting. Check out all the other winners at the Nature Blog Network.

        I’m exhibiting my bird photographs and paintings at Heron Festival at Michigan’s Kensington Metropark, near Milford/Brighton, Saturday and Sunday.
        I’ll be showing some new work, and will have copies of my books for sale, including a new bug book I haven’t talked about yet.. Come by and say hello if you have the chance.

        Enough of the news, below is a spring goldfinch defying gravity for your pleasure.

It finally looks and feels like spring here, stormy and unsettled.

       A spring squabble between this goldfinch couple was soon over, their reconciliation unrecorded.

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American Goldfinch | Spinus tristis

Streaking gold through my backyard, a male goldfinch is gone before I can look up.

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American Goldfinch | Spinus tristis

Tiny yellow bundles of energy, two male goldfinches shout avian obscenities midair.

Not a good photograph, but it gives an idea of their Lilliputian passion.

See two birds collide.

The bickering of birds is always entertaining, and this colorful goldfinch couple reconciled soon after with an unrecorded embrace.