American Goldfinch, Kennebunk, Maine, USA — I find these photos particularly amusing because of the contrast of how hard the Goldfinch tries to sing, and how tiny the actual sound is. I published this little poem a few days ago, but it bears repeating here. 🙂

The Goldfinch sings such a wispy tune,
a whisper song, an absent-minded twitter
totally without conviction. It takes a flock
of them to make much noise, and then
it has all the coherence of a string ensemble
behind a closed door tuning. I want to say,
“hey, Goldfinches, you can do better!” but
then, considering the numbers coming to our
feeders, their song, no matter how deficiently
soft and un-melodic to my untrained ear, must
be perfectly sufficient to Goldfinch needs.

Got to give them points for effort as well. Sony Rx10iv at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Polarr and Apple Photos.