Tag: house finch

Friday (07-February-2020) — New Jersey

Backyard Wintertime Nature in New Jersey.

House Finch and Tufted Titmouse. It is interesting watching how the different birds deal with sunflower seeds. Cardinals and Finches are able to crack open the seed and eat the meat within their beak. Most of the other birds have to hold the seed with their feet and knock at the seed with their beak until they crack it open. Some do it at the feeder and others fly away to a tree branch or other hard surface.


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Daily Electric Energy Used (74.2 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (9.8 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Cloudy most of the day. A deficit of 64.4 kWh.

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Wednesday (05-February-2020) — New Jersey

Backyard Wintertime Nature in New Jersey.

The new bird today is a Downy Woodpecker. I thought it might be a Hairy Woodpecker, but this bird is smaller. Other birds that stopped by include a House Finch, Dark-eyed Junco, Tufted Titmouse, and Black-capped Chickadee.


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Daily Electric Energy Used (65.3 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (8.1 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Cloudy all day. A deficit of 57.2 kWh.

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Tuesday (04-February-2020) — New Jersey

Backyard Wintertime Nature in New Jersey.

House Wren grooming and at the bird feeder. Other birds including House Finch, Northern Cardinal, Dark-eyed Junco, and Black-capped Chickadee.


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Daily Electric Energy Used (63.4 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (14.7 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Cloudy much of the day. A deficit of 48.7 kWh.

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Saturday (01-February-2020) — New Jersey

Backyard Wintertime Nature in New Jersey.

House Finch at the bird feeder, a young scraggly doe eating grass just outside my back door, and a worried doe watching.

House Finch at a bird feeder. Image taken with a Nikon D5 camera and 600 mm f/4 VR lens (ISO 900, 600 mm, f/4, 1/1250 sec). (DAVID J MATHRE)
House Finch at a bird feeder. Image taken with a Nikon D5 camera and 600 mm f/4 VR lens (ISO 900, 600 mm, f/4, 1/1250 sec). (DAVID J MATHRE)
Scraggly Young Doe. Image taken with a Nikon D5 camera and 600 mm f/4 VR lens (ISO 1400, 600 mm, f/4, 1/1250 sec). (DAVID J MATHRE)
Scraggly Young Doe. Image taken with a Nikon D5 camera and 600 mm f/4 VR lens (ISO 1400, 600 mm, f/4, 1/1250 sec). (DAVID J MATHRE)
Wary Doe. Image taken with a Fuji X-T2 camera and 100-400 mm OIS lens (ISO 200, 400 mm, f/6.4, 1/60 sec) (David J Mathre)
Wary Doe. Image taken with a Fuji X-T2 camera and 100-400 mm OIS lens (ISO 200, 400 mm, f/6.4, 1/60 sec) (David J Mathre)

Daily Electric Energy Used (73.2 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (8.4 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Mostly cloudy all day. A deficit of 64.8 kWh.

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One-Year Ago (29-January-2019) — New Jersey

Backyard Wintertime Nature in New Jersey.

Carolina Wren, House Finch, Black-capped Chickadee, and Mourning Dove.

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Carolina Wren at a bird feeder. Image taken with a Nikon D850 camera and 500 mm f/4 VR telephoto lens (ISO 1100, 500 mm, f/4, 1/500 sec).
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House Finch at a bird feeder. Image taken with a Nikon D850 camera and 500 mm f/4 VR telephoto lens (ISO 2500, 500 mm, f/4, 1/500 sec).
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Blacked-capped Chickadee at a bird feeder. Image taken with a Nikon D850 camera and 500 mm f/4 VR telephoto lens (ISO 800, 500 mm, f/4, 1/500 sec).
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Mourning Dove below a bird feeder. Image taken with a Nikon D850 camera and 500 mm f/4 VR telephoto lens (ISO 2500, 500 mm, f/4, 1/500 sec).