Male Purple Finch Recovering Crash

Wow, that's cool..!..Not that they nearly knock theirselves out...lol, but that you get to hold them for a little while.

How sweet

O just look how beautiful this little guy is X

Glad he recovered

Bless you Di!... I had a flicker fly into the patio doors..thump..be broke his neck poor thing...he was such a gorgeous specimen.. have you tried putting a hawk silhouette near the top of the window? I was always amazed at the vitality of the young birds...Jacky was a little furnace...those little feathers are wonderful insulators! The birds weigh next to nothing and still their life force is so strong.

How sweet on your thumb... :)

Can't recall seeing one of these before, super pic and thank you for sharing. Sadly, I can recall that when we had a conservatory built it took quite a few sad deaths before the local bird life remembered where it was!

Purple Finch not on the RSPB UK index, I have never seen on either. These little moments are to treasure for ever.

Yes, I do treasure the moment every time I get a chance to hold one of our little featherd friends but it happens way to often and doesn't always have a nice outcome. The thing that gets me is how tiny some of them really are ! Like a Chickadee, Goldfinch and Hummingbird. Very tiny.

Oh how gorgeous, poor thing, lucky you were there for him

Aw....lovely coloured bird, and so small, needed you too Diohio.

Very pretty bird, I wonder if they come to Louisiana because I have never seen one before.