[Bristol-Birds] Finch Feast
- From: "Rick Phillips" <rickanddonna98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:31:44 -0500
This morning (April 1) despite cold and dreary weather, the trees around our
house have been full of singing Purple Finches, House Finches, and American
Goldfinches. The songs were so loud and plentiful that they all blended
together into one big warble. The attraction (as it is each year at this time)
are some large Chinese Elm trees on property bordering ours on three sides.
The elms are just forming and beginning to release an unbelievable quantity of
seeds which these three finch species in particular seem to love. They are
here each year about this time, joined in some years by an occasional Pine
Siskin or Evening Grosbeak. These trees produce so many seeds that we will
still be cleaning them out of gutters and flower boxes in July. Guess it's
worth it for this blast of song on a cold and cloudy spring day.
Rick
Rick Phillips
Kingsport, Tennessee
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