I found a male Common Redpoll at Sandy Point State Park this afternoon.  
When I saw it, the redpoll was perched low in a pine at a woodland edge near 
a picnic table/parking area.  The bird was in a loose, fairly large flock of Slate-
colored Juncos and Eastern Bluebirds feeding on the ground and at the edge 
of the trees just to the north of the parking lot that overlooks the bay and 
lighthouse.  I got fairly close, but brief looks at the bird in the pine, and was 
able to make out the fairly bright rosy breast, red cap, and dark chin.  The 
whole group of birds flushed shortly after this.  I was unable to relocate the 
bird, despite searching through the Juncos, Bluebirds, and House Finch in the 
vicinity.  Also of note was a bright male Pine Warbler feeding on the ground 
near the trees.

There were groups of waterfowl off shore that consisted mainly of Scaup 
(mostly Greater), Bufflehead, and 4 Long-tailed Ducks.  The small gull flock on 
the beach consisted of only Ring-billed and Herring Gulls.

Fred Shaffer
Patuxent MOS