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Subject: [SBB] feeder goldfinch query
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http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/GoldfinchQuery.jpg

I'd been having only Lesser Goldfinch at my niger feeder since the spring,
then in the last couple of days, the Pine Siskins I reported earlier, and
this one. I'm guessing female American Goldfinch, nonbreeding -- maybe a
first summer bird? (The plain gray bill.) Or might it be a juvenile? I'm
reacting to the drawings in Clement, Finches and Sparrows, plate 12,
compare 65d with 65e.

Or more intriguingly, does the amount of gray, both in underparts and head,
suggest female Lawrence's? (No streaking, so not a juvenile.) See Clement
plate 12, 67c and d. Nearest Lawrence's I've seen to my back yard (back of
the Stanford campus) were a couple miles further up into the foothills,
Arastradero Preserve.

Tom Grey
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