[obol] Eugene siskin

[Alan Contreras]

The first siskin I have seen this season arrived at my feeder, alone,
December 2.  Also the first Lesser Goldfinch I have seen since September.
Lessers are usually the commoner goldfinch in winter; this year they are
late.

-- 
Alan Contreras
EUGENE, OREGON
acontrer at mindspring.com


³Undue neglect, or fear, of subspecies is not only unscientific, it can
hamper rational efforts to conserve biological diversity...and to understand
bird movements.²

-Allan R. Phillips, in Why Neglect The Difficult?, Western Birds 6(3)69-86
(1975)