Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:43:06 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kathy Klimkiewicz Subject: Re: Purple Finches MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Older female Purple Finches can have quite a tinge of color so presence/amount of color tinge doesn't translate to being able to sex a brown bird. Cheers, Kathy Kathy Klimkiewicz, Biologist USGS Patuxent WRC BBL 12100 Beech Forest RD STE 4037 Laurel MD 20708-4037 301-497-5795 work Fax 301-497-5717 Kathy_Klimkiewicz@usgs.gov www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl "Frederick W. Fallon" To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Purple Finches Sent by: Maryland Birds & Birding 11/21/03 06:11 PM Please respond to Maryland Birds & Birding 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 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================