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I am not sure, not being an experienced birder, but I think I have house finches who have nested in an ornamental birch "pocket" hanging under the eaves on my porch. They have produced 5 whitish-blue? eggs in a grass nest. The female warbles rather loudly and the male comes and feeds her. She has been sitting on the eggs about 8 days. They seem unphased by our comings and goings other than to fly away when we approach within 6 feet or open the door, then the female flies right back. The male is rosy red on his head, breast, and lower back. The female is sort of greenish-brown with pale brown beak and some whitish striping on her wings. I saw them actually fight off a second pair of identical birds to defend their nest. From all my books it seems to indicate house finches don't appear in Minnesota, but if it's a purple finch, why is it nesting only 6 feet off the ground in a birch pocket? I can't see a line over the female's eye; her eye is just surrounded by pale brownish-green. Their beaks do not appear to be crossed. Any help providing a positive I.D. would be great, and if anyone wants to come take a look and photograph them before they're gone that's okay. We're at 3275 Robinson Bay Road, Deephaven, MN 55391 and my phone number is 952-473-0822. Flo Cohen. -------------------------------1083929071 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><HEAD> <META charset=3DUS-ASCII http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; cha= rset=3DUS-ASCII"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2712.300" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f">I am not sure, not being an experienced birder, but I think I have house=20= finches who have nested in an ornamental birch "pocket" hanging under the ea= ves on my porch. They have produced 5 whitish-blue? eggs in a grass nest. Th= e female warbles rather loudly and the male comes and feeds her. She has bee= n sitting on the eggs about 8 days. They seem unphased by our comings and go= ings other than to fly away when we approach within 6 feet or open the door,= then the female flies right back. The male is rosy red on his head, breast,= and lower back. The female is sort of greenish-brown with pale brown beak a= nd some whitish striping on her wings. I saw them actually fight off a=20= second pair of identical birds to defend their nest. From all my books it se= ems to indicate house finches don't appear in Minnesota, but if it's a purpl= e finch, why is it nesting only 6 feet off the ground in a birch pocket? I c= an't see a line over the female's eye; her eye is just surrounded by pale br= ownish-green. Their beaks do not appear to be crossed. Any help providing a=20= positive I.D. would be great, and if anyone wants to come take a look and ph= otograph them before they're gone that's okay. We're at 3275 Robinson Bay Ro= ad, Deephaven, MN 55391 and my phone number is 952-473-0822. Flo Cohen.</BOD= Y></HTML> -------------------------------1083929071--
