Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:01:30 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Dave Kidwell Subject: Purple Finch? In-Reply-To: <20030331012254.58019.qmail@web12405.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Saw a bird today at a feeder that had all the markings of a female Purple Finch. It was heavily streaked, thick bill, and had a white stripe above the eye. My only concern was that this bird was extremely pale. Does anyone know of this kind of variation in Purple Finch? Does anything else come to mind? Thanks, Dave Kidwell Annapolis, MD dkidwell@mindspring.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================