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- From: carmanr@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Carman Robert (picro))
- Newsgroups: rec.birds
- Subject: Re: Backyard bird feeding in city neighborhood?
- Summary: An oddity at the feeder
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.144401.8354@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:44:01 GMT
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- Had an odd one over the weekend--a house finch that seems to be a partial
- albino. The tail, wings, and rump are a dirty white, head and breast a rather
- pretty rose. It travels with a flock of perfectly ordinary house finches (the
- most numerous patrons of my tube feeder) and has been there for two days
- running. BTW, my feeder in an urban suburb (area 650,000, actual town 15,000)
- has so far attracted both nuthatches, downie, chickadee, titmouse, Carolina
- wren, RB woodpecker, brown creeper, juncos, whitethroat, fox sparrow, blue
- jay, house finch, and short-tailed shrew. Usually get a towhee around this
- time of year but haven't seen one yet. And somewhere along the line a sharpshin
- generally begins to pay regular visits, though none is in evidence so far.
- Forgot: m. dove and cardinal also on the list. I feed black oil seeds in the
- tube, cracked corn scattered on the ground.
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