<div dir="ltr"><font color="#073763" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">I'm putting this out here because I see it's not yet been brought up this spring. </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"></span></font><div><font color="#073763" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font color="#073763" size="4">Purple Finch<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">e</span>s have a “disjunct song” that sounds remarkabl<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">y</span> like the classic Cassin’s <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Vireo </span>“question-answer” song. <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"></span></font><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:large"></span><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:large">This fooled me the first time I heard it. </span><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:large"></span><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:large">What’s more, <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">PUFI </span>tend to give this in March and April, just before Cassin’s Vireos arrive in spring migration. If you hear an early Cassin’s Vireo, it’s been suggested there’s a 110% chance that it’s a Purple Finch. <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">I know that's not quite true -- I've seen a lot of early CAVI reports on eBird but at least one had a photo and several others mentioned visual confirmation. </span>If your first Cassin’s Vireo of the year is heard-only, it’s worth trying hard to confirm with a visual, or wait and see if it launches into a typical Purple Finch song<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"> (which sounds a bit like the spiralling song of the Swainson's Thrush, though more warbling than ethereal).  </span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Cassin's Vireo should just be starting to arrive about now, but don't really peak for a few weeks.</span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></span></span></div><div><font color="#073763" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Three </span>examples of the Purple Finch’s <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">"</span>disjunct song<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">"</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"> are here</span>:<br><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"></span></font><a href="https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/?speciesCode=purfin&species=Purple%20Finch%20-%20Haemorhous%20purpureus">https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/?speciesCode=purfin&species=Purple%20Finch%20-%20Haemorhous%20purpureus</a></div><div><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><font color="#073763" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">S</span>ome examples of Cassin’s Finch’s <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">"question-answer" song are here: <br></span></font><a href="https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/?speciesCode=casvir&species=Cassin%27s%20Vireo%20-%20Vireo%20cassinii">https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds/?speciesCode=casvir&species=Cassin%27s%20Vireo%20-%20Vireo%20cassinii</a><br><font color="#073763" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"></span></font></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="4" color="#073763"><span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">good birding, </span></span></font></div><div><font size="4" color="#073763"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" color="#073763">Steve Hampton<span></span></font></div><div>Port Townsend, WA  (<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">qatáy</span>)</div></div><br><div><font color="#073763"><i><br></i></font></div></div></div></div></div>