I had about three purple finches at greenwood cemetery, in Brooklyn New York. Likely more.
Please excuse my brevity. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 20, 2020, at 10:59 PM, Isaac Weiss <weiss2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I had last Thursday in kakiat park in Suffern 3-4 males and 6-7 female purple > Finches. > I had at my feeder 2 males about 5 weeks ago > >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 10:44 PM Jennifer Wilson-Pines <jwpi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> I had my first male Purple today with his harem of 3-4 females. Previously >> single females- this was the first flock also. >> Jennifer Wilson PInes >> North Nassau, Long Island >> >>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 10:24 PM Larry Trachtenberg >>> <trachtenb...@amsllp.com> wrote: >>> For the first time in several years, consistent with the Finch “Forecast”, >>> I am seeing a lot of purple finches in Westchester County, including four >>> at my feeders each of the last three days -- all of those are Females or >>> young male types, as are almost all of the purple finches I have seen – >>> just a very, very few adult males. (And I can’t make any of the M house >>> finches into purple.) This seems to be what I am reading in other posts on >>> e-bird or otherwise in the area. Is it a known pattern that the adult male >>> purple finches don’t like it downstate or is there a more scientific >>> explanation available (or are others not seeing this imbalance)? Thanks >>> >>> >>> >>> Croton Point Park has had a few meadowlarks (up to 6 were seen last >>> Saturday), still very good numbers of pipits, and some good sparrows in the >>> last week or so (including vesper and clay colored, both photographed). >>> (But where are the juncos??) >>> >>> >>> >>> L. Trachtenberg >>> >>> Ossining >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> NYSbirds-L List Info: >>> Welcome and Basics >>> Rules and Information >>> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >>> Archives: >>> The Mail Archive >>> Surfbirds >>> ABA >>> Please submit your observations to eBird! >>> -- >> >> >> -- >> Jennifer Wilson-Pines >> -- >> NYSbirds-L List Info: >> Welcome and Basics >> Rules and Information >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >> Archives: >> The Mail Archive >> Surfbirds >> ABA >> Please submit your observations to eBird! >> -- > > -- > NYSbirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > ABA > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
