​Sunday around noon -- at least a dozen Cedar Waxwings quietly enjoying the
dwarf crabapples (and the magnificent view?) at the edge of Thetford
Academy's lower playing fields.

On Tuesday the 19th -- one of those sub-zero mornings -- a male Purple
Finch hit the bay window here, (Cranberry Hill Road, East Thetford.  I
looked out to see if he might be on the ground so I might warm him in my
hands 'til he regained his faculties (as sometimes happens).  Instead, he
was hanging by his feet from a forsythia branch completely upside-down
trapeze artist-style but with legs fully extended like a limp pink
dishrag.  In less than 20 seconds, he suddenly fluttered his drooping wings
and flew off.  Saw 3-4 male Purple Finches here later that morning.  Hope
he was one of them.

Connie Snyder


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