siskins

Petite finches called siskins and a babbling stream somewhere below.

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Was there, or was there not, a flight of siskins by that far clump of trees?

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'Birds,' Miss Marple added after a moment or two: 'I thought, perhaps, they might be siskins.'

Twin Moons 2010

So I dodged finches and pine siskins to head out to the City Forest again.

Impending doom jhetley 2009

I keep expecting them and the siskins and crossbills to vanish -- like Attilla's Golden Horde or the passenger pigeons, such a rapacious lifestyle requires moving on to pastures new every now and then.

Hitting the reset button jhetley 2009

Well, the pine siskins will be represented in proper proportion.

Minor bird-storm jhetley 2009

No siskins noted, but they're about the same size and coloration, so you have to check every bird.

It's Wednesday -- do you know where your blizzard is? jhetley 2009

But no sign of the swarming masses redpolls, siskins, crossbills this morning.

The moving finger writes . . . jhetley 2009

Addendum: Latest swarm is siskins and house finches.

It's Wednesday -- do you know where your blizzard is? jhetley 2009

The finches and siskins are fighting over perches and precedence at the feeders.

It's dead, Jim jhetley 2009