Awesome bird sound asleep on my porch.

Hah, that is awesome! Not too often you see something like that.

I'm assuming he is quite young, and a *well-feed* adolescent yellow-finch. He was not bothered in the slightest that I popped my head out on my deck and took the picture...

My Dad does that in his chair all day long...heh..heh. But he's 86. Cute shot!

Aaaw, little fellow. Cute.

He's not a juvie. When I see a goldfinch doing this, I worry that it might have conjunctivitis. Were it's eyes crusty looking?

Hmm I'm not sure let me see if I got any other pics of his face

Here's another shot with him awake...

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Well, the eyes look OK, and his markings show him as an adult male. But conjuntivitis is a lung disease that shows in other parts of their bodies. You can Google goldfinch eye disease to find out more. They really get hit hard by the disease, which can spread to other birds to from infected feeders. It's just very unusual for these guys to fall asleep out in the open like this. Hopefully he is OK.

Very interesting. Thank you for the info. How can you tell that he's male?

The black patch on the forehead. He will lose that after breeding season is over with and it won't grow back until next spring. Makes it even harder to ID them when they change so much.