Hi everyone,
About 2 months ago the first 'wild' spice finches started showing up at my bird bath and feeder. By now there is a whole mob of them (between 15 to 20): adults, a few young ones almost finished with their molt and LOTS of young ones that haven't started their molt yet. I've been watching them every day, enjoying their antics (mostly landing on top of each other in order to get to one of the bays of the tube feeders) and listening for their typical contact calls and chirps. Yet, I have never seen a single one of them hop into the bird bath and bathe even though there are house finches, sparrows, white crowned sparrows, song sparrows, Western blue birds, warblers, lesser goldfinches and doves taking baths daily.
Does anybody have spice finches that do bathe? Or is my observation typical for them?
Iso
Do spice finches bathe?
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