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First Purple Finches at York SC



HI . . .

I've been reading these postings about folks in the Carolinas just 
getting their first Purple Finches and Pine Siskins--and 
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds!--but had given up on winter finches here 
at Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History near York SC.

Lo and behold, this morning I finally spied two purple Finches in a 
pull-string trap and caught both. One was a raspberry-colored adult 
male banded here as a brown bird (therefore, in his second year) on 
19 January 1997.

I guess hope "springs" eternal for winter birds, even in mid-March.


Happy Birding,


BILL
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BILL HILTON JR., "The Piedmont Naturalist"
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA
hilton@hiltonpond.org, (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845

Please visit our web sites at http://www.hiltonpond.org and
http://www.rubythroat.org

"Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise or too busy to
watch the sunset."					BHjr.