Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:11:46 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Frederick W. Fallon" Subject: Purple Finches MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Today we joined the growing throng of MDOspreyers who have seen Purple Finches lately as 2 "brown" ones visited our thistle feeder this pm. One had enough tinge of color to be called a male. Two is our record high for the species. No Siskins have as yet joined our local Goldfinches but perhaps it's just a matter of time. Elsewhere, a single Bufflehead joined a dozen Ruddies and a lone lingering Pied-billed Grebe at Lake Artemesia yesterday. Fred Fallon Bowie fwfallon@earthlink.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================