Nice photos, Maeve! Thanks for sharing that. I also have yet to find a 
redpoll that I would call a Hoary, but I keep looking! Despite seeing 
many flocks of redpolls around here, we've only had one solitary bird 
visit our feeder briefly, and it didn't stick around. But we'll keep hoping.

Dave G.
Cornwall

On 1/14/21 8:10 AM, Maeve Kim wrote:
> Good morning, fellow bird-lovers - I hope you’re all finding lots of natural beauty to start 2021. We’re being visited by a big flock of lovely, adorable, twittering and flittering redpolls. So far, no birds I’d be confident about calling Hoaries but definitely a few of what Sibley calls “hoaryish”.
>
> Here are some of Bernie’s photos: https://vtbirdsandwords.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-redpolls-are-coming-redpolls-are.html <https://vtbirdsandwords.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-redpolls-are-coming-redpolls-are.html>
> Maeve Kim, Jericho Center