I received a few questions about the redpoals my wife and I saw this morning. We watched them for approximately fifteen minutes while they were feeding, flying and perching around our feeder, ten feet from our kitchen window. The birds we saw clearly did not show any red coloration or streaking on their coverlets. They also did not show as much "rosiness" as the common redpoles have had on their breasts. As I stated in the first message, they were more frosty (white) and they had white cheeks. We have not seen them since around 10:00 am today.
I realize that they are rare in this area. The last time anyone in my family saw them in Carver County was February, 1998 at our old house. We live in a townhouse at 992 Carriage lane in Chaska. We are the second unit of the first townhome and our feeders on the back deck can be viewed from Bavaria Hills Trail road. People are welcome to look at our feeders from Bavaria Hills Trail Road. I don't think other homeowners would appreciate people roaming our back area. Good birding, Tom Dunlap ----------------------- WebMail from Chaska.net ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
