Glister of Goldfinches has a nice alliterative lilt to it. Therefore,
for Siskins, how about "Sisterhood of Siskins," or "Plister of Piney
Siskins"
On 2022-07-03 11:23, Wim van Dam wrote:
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I looked up your question in James Lipton's "An Exaltation of Larks",
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but that one does not mention anything for Siskins. It does, however,
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list a _Glister of Goldfinches_. Given the shared genus Spinus we may
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have to go for a Glister of Siskins then.
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Wim van Dam
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Solvang, CA
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On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 9:38 AM <dgrainger at birdsbydave.com> wrote:
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Our feeder area is now populated "ten to one" Pine Siskin, with
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flight
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school and how-to-be-a-Siskin school in high session, which has
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caused
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me to ponder the question of What one calls a large gathering?
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I thought of these:
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A Circus of Siskins
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A Silliness of Siskins
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A Plethora of Pine Siskins
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A Surge of Siskins
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A Surfeit of Siskins
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One youngster Siskin sat on the crown of my baseball cap while I
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was
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training the Nikon's lens on an outlier, a non Siskin Mob Member, a
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Rufous hummer that was examining a Pale Swallowtail which was
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systematically working columns of catmint blossoms a few feet from
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my
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chair. Photographs done, I measured one blossom in images containing
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the
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butterfly and also the hummer (separate photos) and discovered that
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the
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wing spans were the same. Apparently Rufous was checking to see
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whether
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Papilio eurymedon was a territorial intruder.
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