Once there was a large, strong football defensive lineman who would grab the whole backfield and toss the players away until he found the one with the ball. This might be similar to the random approach I took to photographing redpolls during the snow Saturday. I wasn’t really studying the birds but merely taking photos from time to time when one perched in a nice spot and I happened to notice. I was busy trying to finish and post a long story about a trip to Nepal in 2011. I was also trying to enjoy our winter visitors from up north who have been hanging around our yard for the past several weeks in groups of between one and three dozen at a time. And I was enjoying the snow which we were finally getting.
Yesterday I saw a post from Spencer about checking your feeders for hoary redpolls so figured I should download and check my photos to see if I got any. Here are three photos of what I believe are 2 or 3 different individuals that seem to have hoary redpoll characteristics.
