I'm back to at least 200 Redpolls in the yard. These birds feed for a few dozen seconds, then bolt en masse to the treetops as if at some alarm, then after a few more seconds they begin spilling back down to the feeders. Within a minute they're all back, and then they all bolt again. This nervous feed-and-startle cycle repeats for perhaps fifteen or twenty minutes, then they all disappear for a variable interval (from minutes to hours), then they return and do it all again... So perhaps they are both skittish AND twitchy.
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