This Morning Outside

by Diane Porter

August 19, 2012
Birdwatching Dot Com
Fairfield, Iowa

All that's left of the alpaca-fleece nesting material ball is the grapevine core and a wisp of fluff. This house wren is now using the ball only for a perch, but yesterday I saw an American goldfinch pluck a beak full of fleece and fly off with it. It amazes me that goldfinches can be starting nests in late August.

Photo copyright 2012 Michael and Diane Porter

—Diane Porter

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