I'm fairly ignorant about bird species, but I'm tickled that this one has decided to nest in the "nuts & bolts" bin on the worktable (obviously not in regular use!) in our garage.
Comments added to my old Typepad blog after Chris of
Powerblogs.com did the magnificent import:
It could be a Carolina Wren...they are small little birds, about the size of a Chickadee. They are mainly brown, with a white/cream stripe on each side of the head.
Posted by:
Beverly Babcock | March 18, 2005 06:11 PM
I think it is a wren, too - tiny sweet little birds with a pretty song.
Posted by:
Beth | March 23, 2005 02:55 PM
It's an LBJ— a Little Brown Job.
Seriously, though, a quick way to tell finches is their short and wedgelike beak, used for cracking nuts and other tough jobs. Birds with longer and thinner beaks eat other things. If you do a search on Google pictures using terms like "finch" and "birds [your area]", you'll often get directed to naturalist pages that describe what you're looking at.
But boy, that one's cute. Looking forward to baby bird pics!
Posted by:
B. Durbin | March 24, 2005 04:04 PM
We had a pair of pet finches who looked rather like that. We named them Chirp and Twerp. If you got a side view of the head I'd be more willing to confirm finchdom, for the reason B.Durbin mentioned.
Posted by:
triticale | March 24, 2005 07:26 PM
