I would love some help with the I.D. of this one. Initially, I had labeled it and others like it as "House Finches". It was later suggested to me by a fellow Pbase member that they were "Purple Finches". I double checked my bird books and concluded that in fact they seemed to be "Purple Finches; hence I changed the labels. Yesterday a Pbase friend suggested that he was sure that my original I.D. of "House Finch was correct. Suggestions anyone??
See also images http://www.pbase.com/image/121530741 and http://www.pbase.com/image/121503702
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Thank you Chris, Jess, Tom, January, Jay and Christine, a House Finch it is.