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["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bristol Birders and Chris O'Bryan:

The Purple Finch record is a very good find for Shady
Valley.   We spend years and years birding in the
valley in winter and you pop right up with a Purple
Finch in winter.  

The records you mentioned came from our book
which was published in 1999.  There was only one
winter record at that time.

However,  there was a bird seen on 24 Feb 2000 by
John Shumate and Larry McDaniel.

So congratulations to you, Chris, for having found the
valley's third ever winter record for the Purple Finch.

A great discovery.   Just remember,  I've been birding
in Shady for 41 years and I've never seen a Purple
Finch in Shady Valley during that time.

Experienced birders will all argue that they've probably
been there a lot of times before.  That doesn't make a
bit of difference.  John Shumate has lived in the valley
and kept a highly-successful feeder operation going
and he has only seen one Purple Finch in there in winter
in 40 years !  Yes  40 years!   It has been 30 years since
Todd Eastin has seen one there in winter !  Yea,  30 
years !

Thanks for all your good records.

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN

-----Original Message-----
From: chris j obryan <snakeboy85@xxxxxxxx>
To: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:18 AM
Subject: [Bristol-Birds] Purple-Finch at feeder!


>
>Fellow birders:
>                 This Morning (12 Dec. 2002) I had a Beautiful beautiful 
>Purple-Finch at my Feeder in Shady Valley, Johnson county,Tn.
>Status:
>           Occasional Fall and spring Transient. Accidental winter!
>There is only one Recard in winter Here in Shady and that was made by
>Todd Eastin  
> on the 16, Jan. 1973! ( All this Status stuff came from The book, Bird
>Study In Shady Valley TN. 1934-1999 By Wallace coffey and John L.
>Shumate, Jr.
>
>                   Happy Birding!!!
>                 Christopher O'Bryan
>                    Shady Valley TN
>
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