[bcbirdclub] Re: Common Redpoll - Compton Mt

  • From: Daniel Kendrick <kendridge@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx" <rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:23:36 -0600

Very awesome Roger!

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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>

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