Photograph of a male house finch perched on a cluster of branches covered in overwintered crabapples with a blue sky in the background. The finch is facing left in profile and it has its chest feathers fluffed up to stave on the cold. Male house finches have white and brown mottled feathers with a strawberry-red blush around the head and chest that varies in intensity from male to male, brown backs, brown wings with white edging, dark eyes, a silvery-grey beak, and dark brown legs and feet.