Baby Please Don’t Go
I had been at Ridgefield for hours hoping to get some good pictures of the common yellowthroats that were migrating through but hadn’t been successful. I was getting ready to leave when this male goldfinch and a female flew into the cattails beside the car.
I only had time for a few quick pictures of the male before a territorial red-winged blackbird flew in to chase off the intruders. Happy to get a look at the golfinches that had returned for the spring, I decided to stick around a while longer and was finally rewarded with some nice looks at a male yellowthroat as well.
Tags: American goldfinch, birds, Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Washington