The birds he sees are probably not purple finches.

Purple Finches (4) were seen in the count period.

Gray titmice, purple finches, and humble sparrows had nothing to say.

"We have all kinds of birds - purple finches, chickadees, nuthatches.

Goldfinches, purple finches, squirrels, and chipmunks eat the seeds of the tree.

He enclosed a full-sized color drawing of what turned out to be a pair of purple finches.

They are the avian buzz of the park, drawing purple finches, cardinals and sparrows delighted by the free lunch.

Purple finches sometimes landed on Cashel's shoulder while he waited to turn the oxen at the end of a furrow.

Two years ago she found many house finches with the disease and also some infected purple finches and cardinals.

And this is a such a common rule that it separates house finches from purple finches whose only apparent difference is color.

But for several years I mistook purple finches for redpolls and had trouble distinguishing between chickadees and nuthatches.

The architectural styles include a multi-tier, 10-room condominium meant for purple finches and a house shaped like a feathered chicken with a door in its breast.

He cultivates a meadow with sisal and sunflowers for seed-eating species like Eastern towhees and purple finches.

Purple finches, pine siskins, redpolls, evening and pine grosbeaks and crossbills could become more plentiful this coming season.

Somehow the word has gotten out and the local population of purple finches and sparrows and chickadees appear out of nowhere.

Now in the mornings while I watch purple finches driving larger titmice from the feeder, I say to Him: I would do it again.

Yellow-capped bobolinks and gold and purple finches often shoot out of the fields, and tree swallows swoop and circle in their perpetual pursuit of midair insects.

The black-throated green warbler is now one of our commonest summer warblers; there are plenty of purple finches; and, best of all, the bobolinks are far from infrequent.

But I put up with them for the sake of the purple finches, wrens, chickadees and other birds with daintier habits, and the cardinals, the aristocrats of the feeders.

The flowers along the path were all purple and lavender now, and the purple finches in the trees sang their lilting mel- odies to cheer the travelers on their way.

I have seen purple martins, tree swallows, barn swallows and purple finches enjoying the eggshell pieces and carrying some back to their nests to feed their growing young.

Purple Finches, Chipping Sparrows, Field Sparrows, Ruby-crowned Kinglets and Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are also being reported.

Cedar waxwings, turkey vultures, purple finches and brown thrashers were among the 123 species on hand (or on wing) for last year's lower Westchester-north Bronx Christmas Bird Count.

Thistle seed (niger seed), even though it has become quite expensive, is still available for those who like to attract goldfinches, purple finches and, once in a while, a delightful pine siskin.

To the Editor: Kenneth Gangemi suggests placing an ashtray with sunflower seeds on a windowsill to attract purple finches and repel pigeons and house sparrows (letter, July 29).

While most species identified were not forest areasensitive species, a few were or might have been (e.g., nuthatch, Purple Finch (Carpodacus purpureus)).