American GOLDFINCH FEEDING AT SUNFLOWERS in Yard

VIDEO + PHOTOS of MALE AMERICAN GOLDFINCH:
I was standing in front of the house testing a new Fujifilm Finepix S1000fd Digital Camera when a pair of Goldfinches came to feed on my sunflowers. I froze and quickly pressed the record button. What timing!

NOTE RE THE CAMERA:
The Fujifilm Finepix S1000fd is okay but I returned it to try out the CANON POWERSHOT S5 IS (am not so thrilled with that one either -- it takes GREAT video tho...in stereo!!!).

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES AND TO HEAR WHAT THEY SOUND LIKE, GO TO:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Goldfinch_dtl.html

DATE RECORDED: July 26, 2008

RECORDING METHOD (PHOTOS & VIDEO):
Fujifilm Finepix S1000fd 10MP Digital Camera

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Goldfinch
• Songbird
• Birds
• PASSERIFORMES
• Feeding
• Eating
• Yellow
• Sunflower
• Seeds
• Wildlife
• Backyard
• Habitat
• Nature
• Fujifilm
• Canon

[miss9723]

Hey i love your pics!!! how you blur the backround?? ?

[wildlifeguardian]

@miss9723:

I had the camera in macro (close-up for flowers and such) mode which makes the background blurry because the camera focuses only what's right in front of the lens not what's farther away.

[wildlifeguardian]

@miss9723: P.S.: Thanks for the compliment!  :>)

[pariapsara]

This clip is better than those of the National Geographic

[wildlifeguardian]

@pariapsara: Thank you so very much for that nice comment! :>)

[VENOMOUSTESTAMENT]

BEAUTIFUL!!

[wildlifeguardian]

Thank you! Wish I could have figured out how to add a sample of their song to the photo portion...

[pattyinla]

So very beautiful.

[ROFLpwnedvideos]

Awesome. I just got this camera and was wondering what the video was like.

[JackANDJude]

Great! They look a lot like my sunflowers. We have woodpeckers eating our seeds.  Cheers!

[dharmabird67]

Thank you for sharing this video, so beautiful

[achivemore]

Very nice video! I didn't thng goldfinches would do that. Well I look forward to them going at the big sunflower out there. Thanks