Have you seen a lemon ball hurling through your yard and then landing on the bird feeder? It catches your eye. Most likely it is the American goldfinch. Finches will appear at feeders any time during ...

Probably, the American goldfinch should have been included in last week's column. It's another good starter bird, like the yellow warbler. It shouldn't be confused with the yellow warbler, though. The ...

Freud never said that sometimes a cigar is only a cigar, but whoever did so was right. Can an image with considerable iconic suggestiveness be only itself? Can a goldfinch be only a bird? The famous ...

This fall, several amateur birdwatchers asked me what happened to the goldfinches. They hadn't seen any at their feeders for a while. Now more recently, I have heard reports they are back. So where ...

The American goldfinch is the most interesting and entertaining of all birds to observe this time of year. When other birds have started to molt and become a bit bedraggled in the process, the male ...

Lesser goldfinches are tiny, stub-billed songbirds with long, pointed wings, and short, notched tails. Males are bright yellow below with a glossy black cap and white patches in the wings; their backs ...

Tiny, gold and garrulous — today’s bird is the California prodigy misleadingly called the lesser goldfinch. If you’ve seen a group of little yellow birds eating seeds at a feeder, then you’ve likely ...

Colors tend to be a confused issue in the bird world. Actually it’s in the bird-watcher world one finds the confusion. Birds don’t seem to have problems with the concept. Do you have any trouble ...

If you hang a bird feeder outside your home, there’s a good chance that your first visitor will be some kind of finch. We have five kinds of finches in Marin: the reddish house finch and purple finch, ...

Gold comes in many forms: Nuggets, flakes and veins. It also comes in birds. One of the cutest little finches has got to be the Lawrence’s goldfinch. Its gold is not the brilliant blaze of an American ...

Here's what to feed hummingbirds and goldfinches, plus habitat notes on caracaras and purple martins in San Antonio.

During his famous voyage to the Galápagos Islands, Charles Darwin noticed that the finches differed markedly from island to island. Each group had uniquely shaped bills that helped them feed on the ...