On a recommendation I looked at Macaulay’s winter photos and saw plenty of
variety but no sense of whether the sample is biased for or against molting
birds. Then I recalled I own a reference, a bander’s ID guide. For American
Goldfinch it says: “Continuous, limited molting occurs throughout
Some of mine are similar but my impression without photo documentation is that
some never fully lost yellow patches or black flecks.
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> On Jan 15, 2021, at 5:18 PM, Dave Nutter wrote:
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> On a recommendation I looked at Macaulay’s winter photos and saw plenty of
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Hi everyone,
After seeing eBird reports yesterday, I went to check out a flock of snow
geese at Fenner Rd, which is near Milligan Station but on the east side of Rt
34B. There are literally thousands of snow geese in the fields north of Fenner
Rd, mostly white morph but a few blue morphs
For the last 10 months I have sharply curtailed my travel, both on account of
the pandemic and to eliminate my birding carbon footprint. Meanwhile I have
been paying closer attention to feeder birds than ever before. Maybe other
folks who have longer experience carefully noting who comes to
