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Old 09-13-2015, 12:41 PM   #1
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There are about 9 Goldfinches on my small patch of coneflowers this afternoon. Mostly imm. ones and a couple of mature ones. It looks like the goldfinches are teaching their offspring to find their own food. One doesn't seem to have gotten the idea. It's sitting on a coneflower seed head and begging for food, and getting it from a mature female.
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Old 09-13-2015, 03:00 PM   #2
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Isn't that just the way with children? The goldfinches are busy here too. Yesterday I saw one hanging upside down on a slender grass stalk trying to get to the seed heads. It was sweet and funny at the same time.
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Old 09-13-2015, 05:39 PM   #3
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We had adolescent cardinals in the holly begging for sunflower seed from the feeder.
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