<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Last year a pair of House Finches built their first nest of the year in a balsam fir Christmas Wreath hanging on my shed. They and a couple of others had roosted there all winter. It was faded yellow when they built the nest. But it worked.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>This year a pair is building a nest again. And another pair is building a nest in an identical wreath my neighbors have hanging on their garage. Imprinting perhaps?</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Don Grussing</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Minnetonka</div></div></body></html>