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["Ella Howard" <birder3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Birding friends,    
    I have two questions if anyone might take time to reply.  First, we have 
pine warblers coming to our birdbath.  We have a stand of pines on our property 
where they nest each year and are among the earliest we see in the spring, but 
we have not seen them before here at this time of year.  I know the range maps 
indicate they might stay here all year, but are these likely to be ones in the 
Chattanooga area that do not migrate or are these likely to be ones that have 
come down from the North while ours have migrated further to the South.  I 
imagine some of our birding friends will think we should know this answer, but 
would like opinion.  Perhaps they could be ones that stay or ones that have 
migrated this far south.  We are certain of the identification although we have 
literally hundreds of goldfinches one might think could be misidentified.
    Second, is anyone having many purple finches.  Last year we had a steady 
flock of from l4 to 20.  This year we have had two males and one female thus 
far.
    Thanks for whoever would share an answer and good birding to all.
                                                                                
                    JNH
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