Impressive capture here. Can see a LOT of feather detail.

Agreed.

It's amazing how different some critters look when you see them up close and personal. :3

Great shot. :D

Thanks! :3

how did you get her so close? i have two finches, and they really dont like me a lot =c

The full story is, this finch bonked her head on my window and knocked herself for a loop. After determining that she was only stunned, I very gently moved her to a safer location (away from where the dogs could get her). Once I saw that she was well on her way to recovery, I took a couple of pix and then left her to her own devices. She flew away about ten minutes later, and seemed no worse for the experience. :P

This looks like something my art teacher would make me draw.

Finch Design 101.

Hah. I'd so take that class, so long as you'd be so kind as to teach. :3

Heh! I'm afraid my drawing skills are pretty paltry... best I could do would be to point at a reference book and say, "Okay, do it like that." :P

That's basically what our art teacher does. Good enough! :3

Finches will eat your everything.

But they are pretty cute.
I like those ones with the speckled patterns.

They are fairly cute, at that. The ones around here go through two feeders worth of birdseed a day.

:O

Yep, sounds like finches!

It's a PBJ classic. You like?

Finches love a good PB&J, though the peanut butter tends to stick to the roof of one's beak. :P

Dr. Suess in da house!

From the long-lost classic, "Five Fine Fraptuous Finches!"

Quite a closeup

Thanks. I'm always delighted when these sorts of shots actually turn out. :3

woah... give a finch an inch, they'll take a bite.

out of your sandwich. *^.^*

I once had a roadrunner flap up from the ground and take a bite out of my sandwich. While I was eating it. It was like that scene in "Lady and the Tramp", only with a bird and a sandwich. :P

and, of course, you couldn't chase him. being not a coyote. *^.^*

I recently learned that otters will chase carrots, provided the carrot is floating in a pool of water. I'm not so sure if that would make for a very interesting cartoon, though.

i can't imagine animated otters not being interesting. ^.^

Is it my imagination or does it looks like she's making bed room eyes for the camera? XD

Also WOW tahts a nice detailed shot, dude! Its amazing to see the little pattern of feathers around her eye! :O

Bedroom eyes? Nope, it's Chuck Testa!

Nah, just kidding, she's not taxidermied. I wonder if she was transfixed by the little micro-finch reflected in the camera lens? :3

Aw how adorable! I raised one of these from a pinky. They can be surprisingly affectionate.

And yes, they will eat EVERYTHING. Fluke would ride on my shoulder to the bar and share my chicken salad, but his favorite was the puppy chow we raised him on.

I wonder what chicken salad tastes like to a bird? ;P

The only thing I've seen them pretty much ignore are the peanuts we put out for the squirrels and jays. Maybe they're simply too big for a finch.

Wow, I've never heard of one being hand-raised like that. They do seem to be especially sociable. :3

It was a nightmare! lol
He was thrown out of the nest because of a deformed fist-like foot which I eventually had to remove toes from when they dried up. Because of this, he couldn't stand on that foot to preen one of his sides, so that had to be done delicately with tweesers (pulling the tubing off of the fresh quills... very tedious)

He had to be fed every 15 minutes for almost a month when I first found him. Eventually he started sleeping through the night, but of course woke up peeping the second the sun came up.

I was a bartender at the time, and I had to bring him to work with me in his tupperware nest where he would proceed to "sing along" with the jukebox, which was pretty adorable. He was kinda dumb for a while and couldn't figure out how to drink, so we had to drip water into his mouth with our fingertips even when he was mostly grown. He eventually figured out his dish, thank god.

His "birdy-daddy" got custody when we broke up because I was moved into a studio apartment with my horrible cat, so he is still alive but I don't see him.

I'll give u all my breads, sweet birdie! :D