calling any one from missouri

[shawluvsbirds]

Anyone know what kind of bird this little brave guy is? I can literally get within a few inches of it.

JT

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Siskin/id

 

[SueT]

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Siskin/id

that looks just like it! I never heard of Pine Siskins before, yet the map shows them to be very widespread.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

that looks just like it! I never heard of Pine Siskins before, yet the map shows them to be very widespread.

It didn't come to mind right at first but I could tell it was something in the finch family.
I thought perhaps just a goldfinch because they start to turn drab color this time of year. I saw that while looking for a goldfinch picture and had an a- aha moment.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I would guess if I saw one at my feeder mixed in with all the gold finches I would have just thought that's what it was.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Dang I’m too late... but I was on the same track as Shaw... definitely thought it was a finch, and I thought of female or immature gold finch or house finch or purple finch... but my bird app suggested Pine Siskin as a possible similar bird... and it looked like the best match to me.

Pretty cool, I’ve never seen a one in real life, at least not that I’ve ID’d as one.

 

[jthornton]

Pretty cool, I’ve never seen a one in real life, at least not that I’ve ID’d as one.

And up close too!

JT

 

[jthornton]

Still working on my sunrise/sunset leds, here is a short video compressed to 3 minutes for each sun event.

JT

 

[jthornton]

This is using a different PWM library pigpio, I know it reads like pig pio but it's really pi as in Raspberry Pi and gpio for General Purpose Input Output. The flicker you see is the camera.

JT

 

[SueT]

I noticed that Walmart here has restocked a lot of toilet paper. Not full shelves, but a good amount. It never occurred to me until now to be thankful for toilet paper!

 

[jthornton]

I noticed that Walmart here has restocked a lot of toilet paper. Not full shelves, but a good amount. It never occurred to me until now to be thankful for toilet paper!

Kroger shelves are full of paper products, no premium stuff but plenty of off brand.

Yea, somethings you use to take for granted have moved up the list of importance...

JT