FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Finally! PUFI

[K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was beginning to feel left out.  Finally got one of those
Purple Finches everyone else has been getting when I ran home
for lunch.  Only one male, maybe a second year?  He had the
raspberry color but the sides and belly still showed significant 
streaking where it should be white.  (And no it wasn't a House
Finch and wishful thinking :-).

A Cooper's made a pass and spooked everything off so the rest
of lunch was a bit boring watching a lone titmouse frozen to
the feeder with a sunflower seed in its mouth that was not about
to fly over to a tree to crack and eat it.

It seems to be shaping up for a good winter invasion year with
lots of Red-breasted Nuthatches, Purple Finches, and Pine Siskins
(still waiting on mine).  Dare we hope for Evening Grosbeaks?
Think it's been 14 years since I had them at one of my feeders.

Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN

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