brdnrdr's Identifications

About 4 of these appeared in our backyard and feeder. They just don’t look quite like the house finches we normally get. The shape of the bill and whiteness of the breast led me to Cassin’s Finch.

In the stream in the Herb Garden. Has brown irises which helps distinguish this from red salamander

Male. At a large thistle patch at a road culvert.