Here is a photo of a night feeding seedeater taken while it was perching on our sunflower seed bird feeder about 7 ft above the ground. Time was actually about 9PM as the digicam didn't automatically observe daylight savings time.

I wasn't close enough to be within good flash range with the digicam but with some digital post processing (IrfanView) I think you can make it out. It seems to be a juvenile and quite fond of the black oil sunfloser seeds. I thought I saw a possible sibling leaving the scene of the crime but way out of flash range. It/they have been raiding the feeder for over a week several nights a week.

Lucky for them I reached for the camera and not the .22... I will be reworking the live trap to make it more sensitive as I fed them a couple times instead of trapping them and assumed they were too light for the sticky trigger mechanism.

They will be humanely deported across the river and to the woods.

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