My wife Donna is leaving out the feeders this fall and winter, and the ferocious little Dinosaurs (aka, Pine Siskins) are acting like it’s all being done for Just Them®.
They are bold, they are screamers, they fight, they chase, they bully. They knock each other off their perches. They slap each other with their wings. They bite; they pull out each other’s feathers—they are, in a word, nasty.
Cute, though, to look at ‘em, with their bright yellow wing bars.
But don’t be fooled. No brotherly or sisterly love to share in this crowd.