From: Les Roslund wrote:

Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 15:10:30 -0500
Around noon today, the Pine Siskins put on quite a
show at my thistle
feeders.  Their total number reached six, along with a
dozen or so
Goldfinches.
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Others have also mentioned Siskins in recent days, but
no one is mentioning the sex of the birds unless i
missed that.

As i mentioned the two that visited my thistle feeders
last week were both females judging by the total lack
of yellow.  Peterson, shows the color difference
between M/F in its illustration, although the text is
a little ambiguous about this.  Is anyone seeing
males?  You can reply off topic regarding past
observations.  For future postings how about
mentioning M/F when reporting Siskins, or at least
presence/absence of yellow coloration?  My pair was
nowhere to be seen on the weekend.

Jim Speicher
jugornought—at—yahoo-dot-com
Bethesda @work :(
Broad Run_S. FRED Co @home :)

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