Sweet November is a photograph by Donna Kennedy which was uploaded on January 12th, 2020.
Sweet November
Original Fine Art Photography and digital artwork by Donna Kennedy... ... more
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Sweet November
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Donna Kennedy
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Original Fine Art Photography and digital artwork by Donna Kennedy...
Female Goldfinch feeding on Autumn dried Asters, Reno Nevada
Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria)
Lesser Goldfinches are small finches with bright yellow undersides. Males have greenish-brown backs, black caps and wings with two white wing-bars, and a white patch on each wing. Their tails are black with white patches on either side, and their undertail coverts are yellow (contrasting with the white undertail coverts of American Goldfinches). Females lack the black cap and wing-bars of the males, are not as brightly colored, and lack the white on the tail; they do have white patches on each wing.
The Lesser Goldfinch eats mainly seeds from the sunflower family (Asteraceae, or Compositae), although they also eat coffeeberry, elderberry, and madrone fruits, as well as buds of cottonwoods, alders, sycamores, willows, and oaks. They feed in small groups, moving through low weeds and other plants to get to the seeds, buds, flowers or fruits. Napa thistle is a primary food source. To eat seeds, the Lesser Goldfinch uses its bill to pry open the outer covering, shakes its head to loosen the husk, then swallows the seed. Like American Goldfinches, they cling to the seed heads of tall plants, bending the stem down so that it can end up hanging upside down while picking at the seeds. It will occasionally supplement its diet with insects such as plant lice.
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Don Columbus
Congratulations Donna, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Angeles M Pomata
What an adorable and precious capture, Donna!! The sweet tones of the background are wonderful. L/T
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic art has been featured on the Home Page of the ABC Group F IS FOR FEATHERS themed week JANUARY 6 - JANUARY 13. You are invited to add this wonderful art to the Features Archive Discussion in the ABC GROUP
Don Columbus
Congratulations Donna, your work is Featured in "Birds In Focus" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Randy Rosenberger
Your excellence in your submission of this work is worthy of special recognition, and I am seeing to it, that this happens in the WFS group. I am so happy to have you as an active member of our family of friends and fine artists, who support one another by comments, likes, faves, sharing, etc. Thanks for all your efforts to make our group so special by having a fine artist like yourself among many other fine artists that make our group so special.
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