Very awesome Roger! Sent from my iPhone On Mar 23, 2013, at 7:07 PM, "Roger Mayhorn" <rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This afternoon fellow birder Daryl Owens was looking at the birds at my > feeder through the glass of the dining room door and said, "There's a bird > out here with a red spot on its head. We soon realized we were looking at a > Common Redpoll. There was no mistaking the red spot the black spot on the > throat, the heavy streaking underneath and the heavily notched tail. The bird > was spooked before I could get a photo, but fortunately it came back a few > minutes later and went to the nyjer seed feeder. A far as I know this is the > first record of this species in Buchanan County. > > Here are a couple of photos. Pardon the photo quality. > > Roger Mayhorn > Compton Mt > > <2013_3_23 Common Redpoll_crs - Compton Mt_4846.jpg> > > <2013_3_23 Common Redpoll_crs Compton Mt_4837.jpg>