Hello Jan,
And what a beautiful Redpoll ,fixed on a greating card.Thank you Jan.

Ruth Sullivan
----- Original Message -----
From: <JanFWatson at aol.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: Thurston County Redpoll


> In a message dated 3/29/2002 1:01:59 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> rtshaw80 at hotmail.com writes:
>
> > While outside my house doing some chores, I had a large group of siskins
in
> > a doug fir tree across the street, and in that flock I heard the
> distinctive
> > call of a Common Redpoll (having heard a ton of them already this
year).
> I
> > investigated further, and got a visual on the bird. I actually heard
> > probably this same bird the day before in the same general area while
> > rollerblading, but didn't have my bins to get a visual. I believe this
> > would be a 2nd county record.
>
> For what it is worth, I had three common redpolls in a flock of siskens
> December 18 and 19 (2001). I am proud to say I actually even got a
picture
> of one! I am in Rochester (Thurston Co).
>
> -Jan Watson
>