Saturday's highlite-3 pine grosbeaks(2males and 1 female) eating crab apples 
behind the W. Bratt. post office and 4 redpolls at home in W. Bratt. A flock of 
~15 tree sparrows has been hanging around our house for a few days. 
Sunday morning brought  marauding flocks of ~35 c.waxwings to our 
bittersweet and 15-20 redpolls to our feeder and birch tree.Around 2PM,40-50 
redpolls returned and enjoyed our feeders and birch tree,coming and going for 
an hour and a half. During this time I was able to observe one particularly light 
redpoll perched in the tree and also on the ground eating seed 15 feet from 
our picture window. After several observations and research I concluded that 
this bird was a Hoary based on the overall whiteness compared to all the 
others, extremely limited streaking high up on the flanks(a couple of thin, short 
whisps), and the lack of streaking on the undertail coverts. I did manage to 
take a few pictures with a digital camera, unfortunately without my scope. 
Only one photo was  halfway decent.