If you’ve been putting out sunflower seed in your bird feeders, you’ve been seeing lots of flashy goldfinch activity — especially by the now-fancy, canary-yellow males. Goldfinches are our last birds to nest, and they’re honeymooning at peak intensity through August, unlike all our other songbirds.Their late breeding is a result of their unique dependence on milkweed, thistle, and other similar plants that now produce the essential downy fluff and […]
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