Looks like sparrow.

Female’s brown.

One birder described it “dipped in raspberry juice.”

See its beak?

It’s a finch…a purple finch.

Spring is near, migration will soon draw it away.

Spring, summer and fall it prefers evergreen forests.

Their food…the seeds of the trees from forest they live in.

In winter, the sunflowers at the feeder…a blessing if yours.

Spring motivates nest construction.

How does instinct really work?

Up to seven eggs fill the nest cup lined with animal hair.

How’d the bird learn to nest build?

Two weeks to hatch and two more to fly.

Northbound …

Soon …