Pine Siskins are small, brown-streaked birds, just like female House Finches. They also have hints of yellow on their wings and tails, thus the goldfinch reference.

We are seeing an irruption of pine siskins here in New England due to the lack of winter food in their native forests. I have had huge flocks of goldfinches at my feeders since mid-December.

A pine siskin visits during November, but our Berkshire birder falls short of setting a new record of species observed ...

Northland Nature: Pine siskins stay in late winter Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," among other books ...

Pine siskin will also visit feeders during the winter – especially those stocked with thistle or nyjer seed – although they’ll stick to wild foods for as long as they can find them.

Pine siskins have a willy-nilly migration pattern in which flocks don't typically migrate in predictable patterns to wintering locations.

GRAND FORKS – The pine siskin is another of those wanderers that sometimes show up here and sometimes don’t. This week, siskins showed up. I wanted to report that siskins “swarmed” my ...

That is the sound of pine siskins, and I’ve heard them prattling — like a group of excited children calling to each other on the playground — from the tall white pines along my walking route ...

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Last week, Chenango County resident and Chenango County Bird Club member Michael Foor-Pessin shared a chance bird irruption and sightings of the juvenile Pine Siskins. It has been two decades ...

That is the sound of pine siskins, and I’ve heard them prattling — like a group of excited children calling to each other on the playground — from the tall white pines along my walking route near home ...