This morning I had an odd siskin mixed in with my 60-100 Pine Siskins. I've been scanning them for Common Redpolls, assuming that if redpolls are in Harford Co that they would want to join a large finch flock. Anyway this Pine Siskin was very light in color; I'm sure not outside of normal variation though. I decided to call him my "Yellow Siskin". Besides an oddly colored siskin, I had a female Hairy Woodpecker (which I never get at my suet!) and a pair of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers (I see them in the yard but never at the suet). The sapsuckers don't come at the same time, but they're obviously a male and female. I wonder if they're coming around because their sap wells have frozen up?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75557613@N08/
Happy birding,
Josh Emm
HdG, MD
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