Nature Done Wright

Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs

June 9, 2017

Monday Maine Mystery Answered

IMG_3409On Monday, I asked folks to ID  the guy above — photographed  in Mount Desert Island's Southwest Harbor last weekend.

I'm going to go with the answer provided by Forrest Munger and (mostly) Mary Kostus — Purple Finch. 

Roger Tory Peterson once called it a sparrow dipped in raspberry juice.”

 I have to say that this guys is better looking than the occasional ones I see down here in winter (no offense to the ones we see around here.)

 

4 comments

  • Oh. Like the Infamous Turducken? Thanks!

  • Forrest Munger

    FM is a former resident of Allendale and Waldwick and wandered the Celery Farm many times with Rob Fanning last century.

  • Oh wait that was not a title but an either or. Wonder who the mysterious Forrest Munger is.

  • I like being called a forest munger. Thanks Jim.

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4 comments

  • Oh. Like the Infamous Turducken? Thanks!

  • Forrest Munger

    FM is a former resident of Allendale and Waldwick and wandered the Celery Farm many times with Rob Fanning last century.

  • Oh wait that was not a title but an either or. Wonder who the mysterious Forrest Munger is.

  • I like being called a forest munger. Thanks Jim.

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