About a week ago, I noticed a slightly different finch on a thistle feeder, and it turned out to be a male purple finch! His beak is just a little different shape with sort of a hook on the end, and he is able to use it to eat at the thistle feeder. The very numerous house finches never eat there, unless some seed has spilled out to the dish below, but their bills are much too fat to get in the hole. Plus the Purple Finch is a rosier color, almost like a Rose-Breasted Grosbeak. Don't believe I have ever had these in my yard before. I am in pinyon- oak country, mountain foothills, southwest end of Colorado Springs. Now it could be that I have never id'ed them before, or it could be this is the first year they've shown up, don't know for sure. Has anyone else been seeing purple finches? Cyndy Kulp Colorado Springs
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