Larch Creek Birds

What the birds (and frogs) are saying at a creek in western Washington
Plate 23
House Finch
Allan Brooks, Dawson's Birds of California, 1923 · No restrictions
Bird

House Finch

Haemorhous mexicanus
Finches, Euphonias, and Allies (Fringillidae)
Year-round resident. Expected at the creek in every month.
Field marks
A streaky brown finch with a stubby, curved bill; the male's head, breast and rump are washed red to orange, the exact shade depending on what he ate while moulting.
Male & female
Females are plain streaky brown with no colour at all, and choose the reddest male, which is how the red got there.
Voice
A long, cheerful, jumbled warble ending in a buzzy 'wheer'.
Diet
Seeds, buds and fruit; a feeder regular.
Habitat
Towns, farms, gardens; seldom deep in the forest.
Nesting
In hanging baskets, ledges, conifers, wreaths; 3–5 eggs, several broods.
Size
5–5½ in long, about ¾ oz: five quarters' worth of bird.

Native to the Southwest. The entire eastern population descends from caged birds released on Long Island in 1940 by a pet dealer avoiding a fine, which is not how conservation is supposed to work but is how it sometimes does.

Season how expected it is here, week by week

50%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecheard at the creektoday
Fig. 1. BirdNET's range model for this location: the chance this species is present in each week of the year. Orange ticks mark weeks it has actually been heard at the creek; the dashed line is today.

At the creek 4 calls on 2 days, first Oct 29, last Oct 31

0100:00 — 0 calls001:00 — 0 calls02:00 — 0 calls03:00 — 0 calls304:00 — 0 calls05:00 — 0 calls06:00 — 0 calls607:00 — 0 calls08:00 — 0 calls09:00 — 1 calls910:00 — 1 calls11:00 — 0 calls12:00 — 0 calls1213:00 — 1 calls14:00 — 0 calls15:00 — 0 calls1516:00 — 1 calls17:00 — 0 calls18:00 — 0 calls1819:00 — 0 calls20:00 — 0 calls21:00 — 0 calls2122:00 — 0 calls23:00 — 0 callssunrisesunset
Fig. 2. When it calls: all detections by hour of day (today's sunrise and sunset shown).
23Oct 2 — 0 callsOct 3 — 0 callsOct 3Oct 4 — 0 callsOct 5 — 0 callsOct 6 — 0 callsOct 7 — 0 callsOct 8 — 0 callsOct 9 — 0 callsOct 10 — 0 callsOct 10Oct 11 — 0 callsOct 12 — 0 callsOct 13 — 0 callsOct 14 — 0 callsOct 15 — 0 callsOct 16 — 0 callsOct 17 — 0 callsOct 17Oct 18 — 0 callsOct 19 — 0 callsOct 20 — 0 callsOct 21 — 0 callsOct 22 — 0 callsOct 23 — 0 callsOct 24 — 0 callsOct 24Oct 25 — 0 callsOct 26 — 0 callsOct 27 — 0 callsOct 28 — 0 callsOct 29 — 3 callsOct 30 — 0 callsOct 31 — 1 callsOct 31
Fig. 3. Calls per day over the last 30 days.

From the encyclopedia

The house finch is a North American bird in the finch family. It is native to Mexico and southwestern United States, but has since been introduced to the eastern part of North America and Hawaiʻi, and is found year-round in almost all parts of the United States and most of Mexico, with breeding grounds well into Canada as far north as northern Alberta. There are estimated to be 40 million house finches across North America, making it the second-most populous finch, just behind the American goldfinch. The house finch and the other two American rosefinches are placed in the genus Haemorhous.
From Wikipedia, "House finch", CC BY-SA 4.0.