This purple finch nest with four finch eggs and one from a brown-headed cowbird, a notorious brood parasite. Photo courtesy of Tom Tatum Some would-be hosts of the cowbird eggs take matters into ...

This purple finch nest with four finch eggs and one from a brown-headed cowbird, a notorious brood parasite. Photo courtesy of Tom Tatum Some would-be hosts of the cowbird eggs take matters into ...

This purple finch nest with four finch eggs and one from a brown-headed cowbird, a notorious brood parasite. Photo courtesy of Tom Tatum Some would-be hosts of the cowbird eggs take matters into ...

This purple finch nest with four finch eggs and one from a brown-headed cowbird, a notorious brood parasite. Photo courtesy of Tom Tatum Some would-be hosts of the cowbird eggs take matters into ...

Purple finches like to build their nests in conifers. ... While they won't use a traditional birdhouse, a platform or open-sided nesting box can be installed for them. Mockingbirds.

The house finches seemed to be more reticent about visiting the feeders when the purple finches were there. It’s not easy to tell the house and purple finch apart, but there are several clues.

This past summer, I was fortunate enough to have a pair of purple finches nest near me, allowing me to observe their courtship ritual for the first time. The male sang incessantly from a tree ...

Although purple finches nest in Maine, their population can swell in the non-breeding season by finches from elsewhere. Of course, there are some winters where our purple finches depart and we ...

Today, two pair of purple finches are at the feeder. Then, surprisingly, I hear purple finches at three different locations along my road. Are they back to breed? Yesterday, Danny is working outside ...

Purple finches like to build their nests in conifers. ... While they won't use a traditional birdhouse, a platform or open-sided nesting box can be installed for them. Mockingbirds.