Corn stalk, on railroad embankment. I wonder if it was planted by a blue jay. One of our neighbors likes to feed the critters in wintertime. He put out dried ears of corn one year, so the birds and squirrels could feast on the kernels.
I saw a blue jay planting corn kernels. I mean, he thought he was storing them for later, I'm sure, but....
I had a lot of corn stalks in my yard the next year......
Most of them grew alone, just like this one.
Sunflower patch.
Goldfinches, in those very same sunflowers. I think this is dad and one of this year's offspring. The darker (I presume younger) one was begging, and the slightly tattered looking male was feeding it.
Remember all those crabapples I showed you last spring? Different kinds will have different fruits -- this is the result of one crabapple's abundant flowers.
I don't suppose these are intended to be eaten, unlike the much larger ones I saw at the farmers' market a couple of weeks ago. Love the red with the green.....
I meant to be focusing on the foreground, but I think I'm ok with the blurry foreground and in-focus ones in the back.
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I love this photo of the gold finch. We had one in our yard, that I posted...and we don't have them....didn't know what they were. Thought maybe a runaway parakeet!!
We actually had a runaway parakeet in my old neighborhood, one winter.
It was bright yellow, just like the male goldfinch. It hung out with the sparrows. I saw it many times at my next-door neighbor's feeder.
It was a pretty mild winter that year, and we saw it many times, and then ... not.
I always hoped that someone managed to take it in......
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