During the breeding season, females lack the spectacular yellow colors of the males. The non-breeding season is a great equalizer as even the males take a turn for the drab. This picture was taken at the end of winter in Mississippi.
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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.