Done for the Color Play Challenge found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/february-challenge-1-color-play.39193/

Journaling reads: I was totally surprised to learn that this seems to be a non-breeding adult American Goldfinch according to the picture I found on the internet. I searched for brown birds with black wings with white markings in North Carolina. 1/17/24

“The term non-breeding can apply to birds that are too young to breed and to birds that are acting as helpers to birds (generally their parents) that are breeding, as some species of birds do when they are young. It might also be used to characterize any bird outside of the breeding season. Usually, though, for birds that have different plumages during the breeding and non-breeding seasons, it applies to the plumage they wear during the non-breeding season.” ~answers.com