❤️♥️🩷🤎🤍 Finches don’t get a lot of attention in the bird world, but I find them to be cheerful visitors to feeders with a delightful chatty song. And they really are quite colorful! 
In the Celtic tradition, finches were fairy birds. Their song was a message between worlds.
Here’s some fun folklore about finches:
🗞️A finch singing at your window foretells good news.
💵 A finch entering your home brings financial blessing.
🔉A chaffinch (a European species) calling in the morning calls in the rain.
☀️ And then there’s the goldfinch — sun-colored, summer-blessed — a living symbol of warmth, abundance, and the returning light.
The smallest creatures often carry the oldest wisdom, if we stop long enough to listen. 🌿👂🏻
This whisk was inspired by Cassin’s Finch. Found in the aspen and evergreen forests of the Western US, these flocking seed eaters are boisterous and bold. 
Here’s a few fun facts from All About Birds:
* Male Cassin’s Finches have red crown feathers thanks to carotenoid pigments, which they acquire when they swallow colorful foods like the orange berries of firethorn plants.
* Male Cassin's Finches remain brownish and look like females during their first breeding season. During this time they sing, and this may give the false impression that both sexes sing. These young males may group into “bachelor flocks” during that first breeding season.
* The Cassin's Finch is an accomplished mimic, often adding the calls of other species into its own songs.
* The Cassin's Finch breeds semicolonially, with nests on average 80 feet apart. Nests are sometimes as close as 3 feet apart—this usually causes a fight between males until one of the pair gives up. If the first nest is substantially earlier than the other, however, such close nesting may be tolerated.
* The Cassin's Finch craves salt, and is often found visiting mineral deposits on the ground.
Want to hear their cheery song? ⬇️
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Cassins_Finch/