This is from Fred Stellema:

On Sunday morning, 3/15, I heard a bird bang into the living room window and looked up in time to see it fall. It was a pine siskin and it had almost knocked itself out . I went outside to pick it up, and placed it in a canary cage. The little bird was dazed and did not move much, allowing me the chance to study it, and I discovered it was a rare green morph. I made food and water available and covered the cage to settle the bird down and we went to church. When we came back, we took the time to photograph it and turned it loose.

The Green Morph Pine Siskin shows a large amount of yellow on the greater coverts in the wing, it has yellow in the breast area and is greener on the back than the regular pine siskin. Diagnostic are the yellow undertail coverts, which are white in the Pine Siskin and the Eurasian Siskin. Only one percent of pine siskins are green morphs, so it was a rarity that we got to see it and photograph it.

All photos courtesy of Hilda Stellema and text courtesy of Fred Stellema.