Bird Watching: DAILY PICS VOL. 58, 0 by original_sybil

original_sybil wrote:
Yesterday I found a redpoll at one of my feeders. New bird for me. Resin made the I.D.


From Dec. 4 StarTribune: Winter is the only time we're likely to see hoary redpolls in Minnesota. The birds sometimes drift down from breeding grounds that stretch from Alaska into Canada's high Arctic country.

At feeders

Their cousins, common redpolls, are more likely to visit feeders. (Thistle seed is a good lure.) Commons are expected to be more numerous this winter. They're among the finch species predicted to move south of their usual range because of thin seed crops in northern birches and conifers.