[Birdtalk] Cassin's Finch Weirdness

[Stephen Peterson]

I have had a couple of male and female Cassin's Finches that have been hanging around my feeders and
birdbath for the past two months here in Logan. I first saw them the end of October. They do not make a regular appearance
everyday, but show up maybe once or twice a week, and only for a short duration. I saw a single male just yesterday afternoon.
He stopped by just to get a drink and then took off.

Stephen
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> From: kristinpurdy at comcast.net
> To: birdtalk at utahbirds.org
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:45:21 -0700
> Subject: [Birdtalk] Cassin's Finch Weirdness
> 
> Wasatch Audubon didn't record Cassin's Finches on our bird count on 
> Saturday, so it was a welcome surprise to Jack Rensel to find six under his 
> feeder in Ogden, Weber County, yesterday morning. He lives in the count 
> circle and hasn't seen them in his yard for six weeks to two months.
> 
> I conveniently arranged some yard birding around lunchtime by locking myself 
> out of the house and then waiting for my husband to come home and rescue me. 
> I was killing time in the yard and aimed my binocs at a finch in treetops 
> not visible from inside. It was the first male Cassin's Finch I've seen in 
> the yard since early November. Another was across the street in my 
> neighbor's hawthorne with a swarm of robins and House Finches. How weird is 
> that? I wouldn't have seen these birds had my keys been in my pocket where 
> they were supposed to be before I locked the door. Now, that's a 
> lemons-to-lemondade scenario!
> 
> The coincidence of neither Jack nor I hosting this species in a couple 
> months and then both of us seeing them in our yards in successive days is 
> too much. Has anyone else seen Cassin's Finches after their extended 
> absence?
> 
> Today was another two-Merlin day also; one bird was perched precariously in 
> a treetop in my neighborhood, tail bobbing like a kestrel as it failed to 
> curl those long toes around a skinny branch; the other was on the same old 
> power pole across from the Denny's on South Harrison Blvd about 1/10 mile 
> north of the Harrison-US-89 intersection. That's the third time in about 
> three weeks for a Merlin on that same pole.
> 
> Kris 
> 
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