I’m really enjoying the goldfinches this spring. Some years we don’t see many, but this years there’s an abundance of them.

I’ve watched as the males turn from an army green, similar to the color the females stay year round, into their exuberant and brilliant summer gold.

They sit in the beech tree not far from the finch feeder and sing for their supper. If there are a lot of them in the tree I know that the feeder is probably nearing empty.

They don’t tolerate it getting too low.

They’re used to me being out there and don’t leave their tree, if the feeder is empty, even if Penny and I are on the deck.

They are picky and only really like the finch food I buy from a specialty bird store in the town just north of us. The employees there know me.

The finches are so much fun to watch, though they are eating me out of house and finch food!

Soon they’ll be busy raising their families and we won’t see so much of them. But they’ve sure brightened my spring!