Two female common redpolls were seen again this morning at Ft. Smallwood  
Park, AACo., first around 7:40 by Dennehy, Graf, and Starr, and an hour or so  
later by Hubick and Brighton (probably by more people by now). The birds were  
first seen foraging with juncos along the east side of the road in front of the 
 old fort, where gum balls had piled up between the asphalt and the grass. 
(Gum  balls being the prickly brown fruit of the Sweet Gum, Liquidambar  
styraciflua.) The second shift pulled into the parking lot and saw the  birds fly up 
into the trees between the lot and the fort.
 
Leslie Starr
Baltimore & Port Republic
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