If all you saw were female or younger birds so-called "purple finches," you'd be wondering "wtf is wrong with mine eyen because I see no purple," but then you'd think of all the other bird species named for just the males.

Well, that's the way it is.

Here is a purple finch, not the adult male sort, and she's facing the waxballs she's been stuffing her maw with. It's over three weeks until the celestial season of winter, but the winter birds are showing up outside our window.