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.

CHATHAM, N.Y. As the moody month of March oscillates between cold wintery days and days of warm sunshine, tree buds swell, lawns turn greenish and blackbirds herald the dawn. Spring is coming, but ...

Note the streaked body with yellow on wings and tail. Contributed / Mark Sparky Stensaas. By Larry Weber. March 07, 2025 at 6:00 AM. ... As the February days waned, siskin flocks reached 30-40 ...

Streaky brown, with yellow tinting the edges of tail and wing, pine siskins breed across the northern width of our continent, including in the boreal forests of eastern Canada and in mixed forests ...

Siskins love alder and birch trees and will feed on tiny seeds in their woody ‘cones’. ... The notch in the tail is also quite noticeable at close quarters or in flight, ...