Not every year, but at least a couple of years each decade, here in Mendota
Heights, I will experience an explosion of redpolls, and this was one of those
years. They have been around about a month, with 50-100 at peak, and now
diminishing in numbers to a couple dozen. Both common and hoary, and they will
fill all the perches on my 3 foot tube thistle feeder several times each day.
Bernie Friel
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On 3/20/18, 10:30, "Minnesota Birds on behalf of Michael Koutnik"
<[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
I have never seen anything like this at any home I’ve lived in. This
morning I was approaching my bedroom and heard several taps on the window.
There is a thistle and a sunflower seed feeder close to the window, along with
a bird bath. I saw nearly a dozen redpolls. And at least another 2 dozen on the
ground below the thistle feeder. Amazing! Except for when I visit the Sax Zim,
this is by far the most redpolls I’ve seen at once.
And now just as quickly as they came, they are gone. All that remains at
my suburban Eagan feeders is the more typical single goldfinch and single
white-breasted nuthatch. Oh—and a chickadee. :)
Mike Koutnik
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