SEP 18, birdlore: housefinch

 a) Review of material posted on September 18 in prior years ...

2020: savoir-faire, corniches, Nice (illustrated poem)
2021: anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns 5  (wordplay maps) 
2022: curtained verse, braless (poem)
2023: lexicon of word pairs, echoic binomials I to O (wordplay)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... braless), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slide(s) for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of blog-wonderments (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

b) Today's Offering (Sep 18, 2024):  

Authors' Note: The gregarious house finch, Haemorhous mexicanus,  originally an inhabitant of the western US and Mexico, was introduced into Long Island, New York, in 1940. Although the female is not showy, the male is distinguished by the rosy red coloration of its face, neck and upper breast areas. The species quickly spread across the eastern US and southern parts of Canada. A strict vegetarian, this bird is now the most common visitor to feeders in many parts of its current range.

For more titillating pics of the house finch at our feeder, click HERE.

You can view an encyclopedic collection of illustrated poems on this topic by proceeding to the post "Poems about BIRDLORE" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.