Monday, March 16, 2009

Todmorden garden - Lesser Redpolls


4 male Lesser Redpolls feeding in the garden this afternoon, all looking stunning in their breeding plumage.

4 comments:

Nick Carter said...

Nice one Jeff, this Redpoll taxonomy has got the better of me!

Jeff Cox said...

Yep - me too. They were just Redpolls to me but when I had to enter sightings of them onto the BTO site for the Atlas, I had to decide whether they were Common, Lesser, Mealy or whatever. I had to catch up on Lesser being separated from Common!

David Sutcliffe said...

Nice visitor to the feeder Jeff. By the way we saw 20 or so Rooks at Wainstalls today - they were heading west!!!!

Jeff Cox said...

Well I hope they land and build a few nests around my way Dave. I really need some to restore my sanity! I was walking over Long Preston way this morning and saw around 40 rooks busy building nests. I tried to catch a few and import them but they were too elusive.