Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:23:02 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: Re: Purple Finches In-Reply-To: <3FCD4584.A150D50@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Fred, I see as many as seven at my feeders every day. Hope they'll stick around for the Jug Bay CBC. Arlene Ripley Calvert County, MD piwa@earthlink.net http://nestbox.com At 09:08 PM 12/2/2003, you wrote: >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? ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================