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Purple Finches and Picket Road Goose



1.  We had three purple finches at our feeder last week, two males and
one female.  These are the only purple finches we have seen this year. 
We had only one female last year.  We have the usual crowd of house finches.

2. I was glad to see the message from Will Cook about the goose at the
pond off Pickett Road.  I saw this goose last year and since I live
nearby, I looked at it several times with my scope.  I never could match
it with anything in my bird books. I talked with a person who lives on
Pickett Road and was told that there is a second pond and that a family
had been feeding domestic geese on this pond.  I decided that the
unusual goose was a domestic goose of some type but I was not sure
enough to speak up when I saw the results of the bird count.  I never
considered a hybrid.  I guess there is a lesson here for non-experts! 
We should speak up!

Russell and Ruth Roberson
3406 Ogburn Ct.
Durham NC