There were the familiar blue jays, cardinals and goldfinch.

其中有熟悉蓝松鸦、红雀和金翅雀。

Goldfinches eat seeds and very little else.

金翅雀主要吃子和其它一些小部分食物。

The yellow warbler may sometimes be mistaken for a goldfinch.

这只黄色小鸟或许被你错认为金丝雀了。

Bird trapping has severely reduced the local population of swallows and quail, as well as native species like goldfinches.

诱捕鸟类大大减了当地燕子和鹌鹑以及金翅雀等本地物量。

Although they are very common backyard birds, you may have trouble recognizing a goldfinch if you see one.

虽然金翅雀是一很常见鸟儿，但是如果你看到一只，恐怕你也不是很容易认出来。

Sorry, there's a goldfinch at the birdbath that is literally flashing in my peripheral vision.

抱歉，鸟浴池里有一只金翅雀，它在我视野边缘闪闪发光。

Can you really feel what like a dog might feel or like a goldfinch or something?

你能真正感受到一只狗或一只金丝雀可能有什么样感受吗？

In the winter, goldfinches shed most of their colorful plumage and become olive or brown in color, so it can be easy to miss them at your feeder!

冬天，金翅雀会褪去彩色羽毛，变成橄榄色或者棕色，所以很不容易在喂食器周围发现它们！

And so I think here's a great dissertation project for someone is just take a common species like black-capped chickadees or goldfinches and just sample them across the four seasons.

因此，我认为这是一个绝佳博士论文题：选取如黑顶山雀或金翅雀这样常见物，在一年四季中对其进行采样研究。

Swallows nesting under the eaves flew hither and thither; in the garden and the trees there were hedge-sparrows, siskins and goldfinches, and when darkness fell the nightingale began to sing.

燕子在屋檐下筑巢，飞来飞去；花园和树上有篱雀、黄雀和金翅雀，夜幕降临时，夜莺开始歌唱。

Well, I think that that gets at it, that we can have a podcast interview over the internet and you can look outside the window and appreciate a goldfinch all at once, and it's not a contradiction.

嗯，我认为这正是关键所在，我们可以通过互联网进行播客访谈，同时你望向窗外，欣赏一只金翅雀，这一切并不矛盾。