A female and 2 male Purple Finches came by our feeders north of Boulder this
afternoon. The female was around for a while, so I was able to study it. It
seemed somewhat in between the e and w varieties pictured in Sibley. Crest;
bill not as sharply conical as a Cassins; whitish underparts with dark broad
streaking; primary projection longish but not specially long; weak face
pattern; narrow white rim under eye, rump light brown with some vague mottling.
While I was working on such details, two males suddenly appeared for about half
a minute, and didn't return.
Not a bad day--a Prairie Falcon zoomed by in the morning for a bonus.
Alan Bell, Boulder
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