A bright red purple finch was sitting on our deck railing this morning.
It caught my eye, interrupting the morning routine. We don't see purple
finches all that often, so I stopped to scan the apple trees for more. 

Had about 15 Juncos, 5 purple finches, 5 Goldfinches, and 5-10
chickadees. Our normal flock of 15-20 Evening Grosbeaks was unable to
access the feeder because of a greedy red squirrel sitting on it and so
they were foraging on the ground beneath. But with them was a bright Fox
Sparrow! A nice contrast to the bright yellow and white of the
Grosbeaks.

Our robin count has also dwindled back to a normal 30 or so now that the
fields are totally free of snow.
Lorena Krenitsky

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