FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Re: Purple Finches nonsense

["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks and Charlie Muise,

I am going to ignore Charlie's Super Bowl halftime show humor.  
No, on second thought,  I won't.  I thought MTV's Parus major 
(http://www.birdguides.com/html/vidlib/species/Parus_major.htm)
revelation lived up to some of their often distasteful standards.
It was about as nasty as some of the beer that Charlie drinks :-)
It's going to take more than that minor revelation to peak my 
interest.  Surely some of you more mature readers remember 
Blaze Starr on the Tonight Show?  Or the Two O'Clock Club or
the Baltimore Orioles' (bird list here) World Series Championship 
celebration on the "Block"  in Baltimore."

Speaking of juveniles.  Maybe many of the TN-Bird subscribers 
don't know how to tell which of the Purple Finches they see at
their feeders are females.  Charlie,  you want to write
us a little exercise on here about how you do that?  It should
be informative for those of us who don't have much confidence
in determining the sex of many of the Purple Finches at our feeders.

Let's go birding....

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie" <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:46 PM
Subject: [TN-Bird] Purple Finches and some nonsense


> Hi folks,
> 
> As I play catch-up with email (I was at an EMT refresher course last
> week, so fell behind... again) I see a few posts about Purple
> Finches.
> 
> We had none at our house south of Maryville in Blount County last
> year, but we've had a handful every single day that I've been home
> during daylight hours since we returned from holiday travels.  Most
> often we've had 2 males and 2 females.  A few times we've had 3 of
> each.  I don't recall seeing fewer than 4, nor do I recall an odd
> number at any time.
> 
> The finches go marching two by two, hurrah, hurrah...
> 
> Ok, I must have celebrated the Patriots victory too much!!!
> 
> Speaking of which, did everyone see that Parus major during the
> halftime show?
> 
> Ok, Wallace, cut me off now, before I REALLY make a fool of myself...
> 
> Charlie
> 
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> Now living in Maryville, TN
> Still working in Great Smoky Mountains 
> National Park
> 
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