Bird ID Help Please

[Paul]

Can anyone helpd indentify half of this bird. My Finacee was shooting away the other day and i found this shot on the card. I do not recognize it for being half there:

[Steve Foss]

It's a female house finch or a pine siskin. I'm leaning toward the siskin.

[Dave S]

Not to doubt Steve's expertise, but I am leaning towards the female house finch.

The top half of the beak is somewhat rounded, or has a downward curve to it. The pics I was able to pull up of the Pine Siskin appeared to have an almost perfectly triangular beak with no curvature as compared to the bird in your pic.

[Steve Foss]

Bird ID off partial pis is an inexact science. Which is why I generally am not positive unless I'm positive, if you know what I mean.

Certainly could be either one. Looks quite a bit more like the siskins I see at my feeders than the finches, but I'm not at all certain.

[Dotch]

Also not to doubt Steve but I would be guessing female house finch. The siskins I remember here had a more conical shape to their beak, not as broad at the base as this one. But what do I know? I thought my wife would do the laundry and cook meals when I married her too!

[Steve Foss]

It's got a seed in its bill (just barely visible), fyi. That changes the whole look of the bill.

[Dotch]

Sure it isn't a chew?

[Dave S]

It's got a seed in its bill (just barely visible), fyi. That changes the whole look of the bill.

He's also "flipping us the bird".