Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:10:31 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Walter Ellison Subject: Re: Purple Finches MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All, We had Purple Finches coming to our feeder and eating sweet gum seeds here at Chesapeake Landing in central western Kent County for about three weeks in November. They peaked at 30 on 19 November and declined to low single-digits up to the point we left for Thanksgiving with grandparents in the north on 26 November. We have not seen any at the feeder since we returned on Monday this week. We had a pet-sitter visiting to fill the feeder and look after our other animals (a cat, a guinea pig, a goldfish, and two black swallowtails that should have waited till spring) while we were away so it wasn't lack of food that caused the departure. I hope there are still some around in Kent County somewhere, and that we haven't been deserted for parts south. Good Birding, Walter Ellison 23460 Clarissa Road Chestertown, MD 21620 phone: 410-778-9568 e-mail: rossgull@crosslink.net "A person who is looking for something doesn't travel very fast" - E. B. White (in "Stuart Little") ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederick W. Fallon" To: Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 9:08 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Purple Finches > There have been many welome reports of Purple Finches ("PUFI"s) and > Siskins over the last few weeks. But as we move closer to winter I > wonder how steadfast these birds have been. Our own PUFI's stayed only > one day, and I sense that others have also moved on. What is the > experience of others who reported PUFI's earlier? And what does that > foretell about the chances of their occurring on the CBC's? > > - 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================