Subject: [Tweeters] redpolls return
Date: Feb 7 22:06:11 2005
From: Hill - hill at smwireless.net


This morning I noticed flashy shadows coming from the birch trees outside the Refuge office in Othello. Early this afternoon Bob Flores mentioned that the redpolls had returned. Sure enough there were 10 COMMON REDPOLLS working over the catkins at the SE corner of the building. My last entry (and highest count) at this location was 8 on December 16. Whether they were wandering out of sight around Othello or are returning from a southern excursion I don't know, but after 7 1/2 weeks I'm happy to see them again. I may have had a brief look at a flock of 15 in the northern part of Columbia NWR on Friday, but I never did get a good look.

Randy Hill
Othello