To: JIM VENEDAM
Subject: Squirrels
JV> LT> Hmmmmm....your little yellow bird sounds like one of the wild
JV> finches or parakeets that we have down here.
JV>Musta been a finch. It wasn't a parakeet. Too small, altho his
JV>coloring was a lot like one of those yellow-green parakeets.
Yeah, up here we call them wild canaries, but their proper name is
goldfinch. They really twitter, especially as they divebomb my Swiss
Chard, which they love. Rip huge chunks out of it. Females are drab,
but the gaudy yellow males turn olive come fall.
...Sandra...
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