We have our first ever purple finch on the feeder today in Avon Lake.
It's a female.
There is no mistaking it for a house finch. It looks like a small
female grosbeak.

There were lots of juncos this morning.
wInter wrens
golden crowned kinglets
white throated sparrows

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