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Purple finch        Images © Mark A. Chappell

The male purple finch at upper right flicked his wings open at the moment I tripped the shutter.   Two other males (which can be told from the closely related house finch by song and by unstreaked underparts) and a female are also shown.   All of these birds were attending a feeder in Pebble Beach, California.

  • Canon EOS1v, 500 mm f4 IS + 2X converter, Elite Chrome Extra Color with electronic flash (2003)
  • Canon 1D Mk. II, 500 mm f4 IS + 2X converter, fill-in flash (2005)