Since last Tuesday, a male and a female Purple finch and a Junco have
been spending time here along with the usual Stellar Jays, Flickers,
Mourning Doves, Spotted Towhee, Evening Grosbeaks, Chickadees, American
goldfinch, and song sparrow. This Junco is the first one I've seen
since the winter flock left the end of April.

The first male Black-headed grosbeak showed up two weeks ago with a few
more arriving in the next couple days. Now I see a dozen of them every
day most of the day, about evenly devided between male and female.
Watching them is interesting because the diversity of their breast
colors makes it possible to tell one from another to a certain extent.
(The females vary from light cream to light orange, the males from light
orange to the usual bright shade.) One of the males spends most of the
day in one of the bird feeders--sitting there even after it is empty of
seed.

Darlene
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Darlene

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong which is
but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was
yesterday. --Alexander Pope