Thanks for the post Joe!
I have never seen a hoary redpoll and assume most readers here have probably not also. From what I found there's only one County in the Yellow Book with an accepted record (Worcester), but at least 8 MD Counties have reports (incl Montgomery), and eBird has records for only Worcester and Montgomery. The eBird pics I looked at for the Montgomery bird (1994; up to 4 reported; observed with up to 250 common redpolls at a residential feeder) look very much like what I would expect to see for me to be confident about seeing a Hoary. From what I can tell in the pics from Joe's post I think the Garrett birds appear to be more like Commons, based on overall darkness and extent of pink on flanks. But I am certainly not familiar enough with them to know. I probably speak for all here that if these birds are still present and may indeed be Hoary's, and of course if Joe would allow birders to see them at his house, then I think a lot of us will be interested in trying to see them!!
Any other thoughts?
Jeff Shenot
Croom MD
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