Deb

The house finch parents MUST be some of the most patient birds on the planet!  Their fledglings are continuously following them and harassing them for food!  Even as those babies watch their parents eating at our feeder, the babies demand food from the parent instead of noticing where mom/dad is getting its food!  You can almost see the disgust in the parents' demeanor.  It's adorable, too, though.  The fledglings are easy to identify because they almost always have the cute tufts of down on their heads like in your picture, just like Alfalfa in the Little Rascals.