This American Goldfinch visited my coarse sunflower seed feeder and was kind enough to pose for a few pictures.
Photographs taken on 16 January 2018.
American Goldfinch
Original Photo: Canon EOS 7D; f/18; 1/10 sec.; ISO-100; 300mm
Original Photo: Canon EOS 7D; f/18; 1/10 sec.; ISO-100; 300mm
Original Photo: Canon EOS 7D; f/18; 1/10 sec.; ISO-100; 300mm
Original Photo: Canon EOS 7D; f/18; 1/10 sec.; ISO-100; 300mm
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For more information the the American Goldfinch see All About Birds.
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Beautiful bird. Perfect timing.
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Hi Mike. Excellent photos, it shows that you like nature very much. Portraying her is a gift from God. Congratulations, a hug
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Photograph is best Timing is perfect
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Excellent shots you have captured there not easy at all great one :)
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We do run into these little characters in South Florida but I never knew what to call them, -- we have confused them with orioles that are Black & Gold too.
These are Orioles:
![Orioles.png](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmaTRHmmp6QAwHmiGcgdzDBWr892Yy6F3VcA7bnD6oVqtq/Orioles.png)
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I usually see an Oriole once a year. It always seems to be just passing through.
The store I go to for bird seed sells jelly feeders for Orioles. I do not have any jelly feeders. That may be why the Orioles I do not see Orioles during the summer.
Have a great day!
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Nice Awesome photography
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cute little bird very good photography sir, thanks for sharing.
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Nice photography!!
its cool!!
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Love goldfinches! :) Thanks so much for this delightful photography.
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Very nice and cute bird, perfect colour combination, good photos sir, thanks for sharing.![IMG-20180729-WA0003.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbDFhLj8kTkaAzfqR1fWvvbY4qbsQ6nQTA2JdUiLAqDdX/IMG-20180729-WA0003.jpg)
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Beauty. Just saw one this morning. :-)
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I have seen more House Finches this summer than American Goldfinches.
American Goldfinches are very striking this time of year.
In a month or so their color will start fading as we move into fall in the northern hemisphere.
Have a great week!
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Thanks for the info on G. Finches. The one I saw was very bright yellow.
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Sorry for my earlier comment, my bot detected that this has a high potential to trend, I would be interested in it and picked something that amounts to "I don't understand it enough to say anything". She's a work in progress. Anyways this was excellent, I love photo blog posts like this. I'll work on her tonight and help her understand these types of posts better.
She did an excellent job pointing me here though!
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What did you not understand?
I would be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Have a great day,
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Hehe, thanks for your patience. You were chosen by a custom bot I wrote that picks out stuff I might like and that has a high probability of trending. She gives you an upvote and a quick comment to attempt to kick you over the goalpost. But she doesn't understand photo heavy content and rather than not say anything at all, she posts what amounts to a call for me to come look quickly.
I'm detailing her development on my own blog.
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Congratulations to you... I am impressed with the creativity you have shown writing/using such a bot.
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Thank you for the wonderful comment. I am delighted.
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Things like photo heavy blogs are especially a challenge. She doesn't have the ability to see the photo, let alone interpret what it might be. Her development thus far has been strictly about natural language processing. But she picked up on the fact that I like pretty photos anyways because she sees there's an image link there. She just doesn't understand what the link is. So she's really trying to say "I know Sara likes things like this, but I don't understand what it is and therefore I have no context to say something insightful".
I have some ideas on how I might compensate for her lack of vision (mainly giving her some sort of rudimentary vision using image classifiers), but there is a dollar cost for that kind of processing power and right now I just don't earn enough either from upvoting and curating or in my day job to make that financially attractive. So I'm stuck explaining the very odd comments she makes everytime she sees a photoblog I might like.
Again thanks for your patience!
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I am not sure if this helps with the photos your bot discovers, but here is what I do. I use tags in my photos. This allows discovery of the photos by Google when people are searching for particular images. For example, my sunrise photos always contain the tag, "sunrise".
If you need help earning on SteemIt, here are a few tips for my blog posts:
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It will be interesting to see your code. Maybe you can help me learn to explore the blockchain.
You earned a new follower. I look forward to seeing your future blog posts.
Have a great weekend!
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Excelente toma, en el momento justo.
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Hi :)
Beautiful photographs!! Great post.
Cheers
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