[Tweeters] pine siskins

[dgrainger at birdsbydave.com]

Glister of Goldfinches has a nice alliterative lilt to it. Therefore, 
for Siskins, how about "Sisterhood of Siskins," or "Plister of Piney 
Siskins"



On 2022-07-03 11:23, Wim van Dam wrote:

> I looked up your question in James Lipton's "An Exaltation of Larks",

> but that one does not mention anything for Siskins. It does, however,

> list a _Glister of Goldfinches_. Given the shared genus Spinus we may

> have to go for a Glister of Siskins then.

> 

> Wim van Dam

> Solvang, CA

> 

> On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 9:38 AM <dgrainger at birdsbydave.com> wrote:

> 

>> Our feeder area is now populated "ten to one" Pine Siskin, with

>> flight

>> school and how-to-be-a-Siskin school in high session, which has

>> caused

>> me to ponder the question of What one calls a large gathering?

>> 

>> I thought of these:

>> 

>> A Circus of Siskins

>> 

>> A Silliness of Siskins

>> 

>> A Plethora of Pine Siskins

>> 

>> A Surge of Siskins

>> 

>> A Surfeit of Siskins

>> 

>> One youngster Siskin sat on  the crown of my baseball cap while I

>> was

>> training the Nikon's lens on an outlier, a non Siskin Mob Member, a

>> Rufous hummer that was examining a Pale Swallowtail which was

>> systematically working columns of catmint blossoms a few feet from

>> my

>> chair. Photographs done, I measured one blossom in images containing

>> the

>> butterfly and also the hummer (separate photos) and discovered that

>> the

>> wing spans were the same. Apparently Rufous was checking to see

>> whether

>> Papilio eurymedon was a territorial intruder.

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