A Purple Finch in Stinky Valley
Mercy! We have been the hapless victims of a cyber attack. That's why no posts to the venue lately. And like for over a week the computer has been totally gone from the Cow Barn. Yet now it is back. Goodness! If resolve holds, this is the last pc to afflict the CB, ever. Mercy!
Well. Everyone has been plenty excited due to unusual birds showing up at the CB. Day before yesterday, for example, featured the second known, and first photo record of a brown creeper. The week before, over in the neighborhood of the Stinky Valley city hall, Ray photographed this bird. We are feeling like the bird here depicted is likely a purple finch (Carpodacus purpureus). There it sits in the top of a hackberry, fixing to get attacked by its only avain company, blue jays.
Why do we believe it's a purple finch and not one of the hoards of house finches normally inhabiting these parts? Well, mostly it's the paucity of flank stripes.
Well. Everyone has been plenty excited due to unusual birds showing up at the CB. Day before yesterday, for example, featured the second known, and first photo record of a brown creeper. The week before, over in the neighborhood of the Stinky Valley city hall, Ray photographed this bird. We are feeling like the bird here depicted is likely a purple finch (Carpodacus purpureus). There it sits in the top of a hackberry, fixing to get attacked by its only avain company, blue jays.
Why do we believe it's a purple finch and not one of the hoards of house finches normally inhabiting these parts? Well, mostly it's the paucity of flank stripes.
posted by ray pistrum at Saturday, January 05, 2013
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