WOOHOO!!!
A Lifer, while walking through the parking lot at work!!!
Purple Finch are highly unusual in Colorado. eBird shows only 9 reported in the entire state over the past 10 years. I've never seen one.
Yesterday evening (about 45 minutes before sunset), I looked up at a pair of House Finch in the tree across the gully from the parking lot and thought, "That doesn't look right!"
And it wasn't. It was a male and female Purple Finch. I looked for them again today before work and during every break, but no. They've probably migrated on north.
#243 on my Life List ... which admittedly I've only been keeping for about six or seven years. (Had I actually kept a Life List my entire life it would be MUCH longer than that :)
BB,
NightWing