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House Finch Carpodacus mexicanus In the Birds category.

We see these birds all the time.

Links to references used on this page.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/House_Finch/id
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Finch

Information
The first three photos are of a female house finch. The males have a red coloring to them whereas the female are brown and white. This bird has an eye disease in her left eye.
 
Photo taken on 8/14/2009.
The young finch was imitating his father.
Like father, like son
Photo taken on 8/14/2009.
Two juvenile birds drinking water.
This was a funny scene. The mother and father birds are not in this photo, but just before the picture was taken, there were teaching these two juveniles how to drink.
Photo taken on 6/8/2009.
female house finch
this bird flew right up next to me and lit in the feeder just a couple of feet away. you can see she has a bad left eye.
Photo taken on 6/8/2009.
female house finch
see how red her left eye is.
Photo taken on 6/8/2009.
Female hose finch
This photo shows how her eye is matted a little.
Photo taken on 8/14/2009.
Two finches gossiping.
2 women gossiping. What can I say.
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