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din



I sent this Saturday, 3/30 but forgot to go to plain text so you didn't get
it,but it's not time sensitive anyway--just thought it was interesting.

Here in the Lowcountry we had a lot of goldfinches during January and
February, but as expected, they had begun to taper off in the last
couple of weeks.  I saw maybe a dozen this morning.  Then I went out ham
shopping and when I came back I was treated to what I can only describe
as a din!  You know the sound when three or four hundred mixed icterids
land in your trees?  Today's sound was like that only pitched higher and
not quite as loud, but many, many voices.  It has to have been a new
fall out of gold finches--all 'potato chip'-ing away in the live oaks,
whose color they match perfectly at this time of year so I really
couldn't see them unless they moved.  They are all over the feeders
now--many with real yellow showing.  One is even eating safflower!

Bruce Krucke
Yonges Island, SC
bkrucke@awod.com
http://www.toogoodoostudios.com