American Goldfinch

When I first got into bird photography, I didn’t think much about state birds. They felt like trivia—things you memorise for a school quiz and forget. But on a walk through Hobler Park one morning in April, I suddenly found myself face to face with New Jersey’s: the American Goldfinch. You usually hear them before you see them. That morning I was heading toward a thin strip of trees in the southeast corner of Hobler Park when I heard a commotion—high-pitched, twittering calls that […]

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