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Birding Reports => Backyard Birding => Topic started by: cairnstone on April 16, 2017, 07:17:17 PM

Title: Purple Finch
Post by: cairnstone on April 16, 2017, 07:17:17 PM

Purple Finches have been few and far between lately (they usually are anyway). I've had a couple visit this spring so far. This one today, April 16, 2017. Brampton.

(https://download.ams.birds.cornell.edu/api/v1/asset/54739241/1200)

Title: Re: Purple Finch
Post by: Paul O'Toole on April 16, 2017, 07:22:21 PM

Beautiful shot and beautiful bird. The Purple Finch is the bird that Roger Tory Peterson famously described as a “sparrow dipped in raspberry juice.”

Title: Re: Purple Finch
Post by: cairnstone on April 17, 2017, 02:11:37 PM

Thanks Paul. The Purple Finch continues at my feeder today which is not the norm. Usually they are a one day wonder.