Here's a link to the North American Birds article Ryan referenced:
http://www.aba.org/nab/v65n2redpolls.pdf

Adam

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Adam Sedgley
S e a t t l e, WA
sedge.thrasher [at] gmail [dot] com


On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Ryan Merrill <rjm284 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday Eric & Nancy Olsen and I covered Samish Island as part of
> the Padilla Bay CBC. We were fortunate to encounter a few flocks of
> Common Redpolls, totaling at least twenty birds but there were likely
> more. In a particularly cooperative flock of eight redpolls at the
> base of the hill on Blue Heron Rd there was a first-year Hoary Redpoll
> that provided fairly close scope views for over fifteen minutes.
> There are a lot of alder cones in the area so I expect at least some
> of the birds may stay around awhile, though actually seeing them well
> may be a challenge since most of the habitat other than at this spot
> is on private land and is well off the road. I have a few pictures
> online:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjm284/
>
> The current issue of North American Birds has a nice photo essay on
> identifying the four main races of redpolls that occur in North
> America which features a bunch of great photos from the redpoll
> invasion in the east last winter.
>
> Otherwise there was an Eared Grebe off the DNR park and 34 Eurasian
> Wigeon in a cursory scan of some of the closer wigeon in Padilla Bay.
>
> Happy New Year,
> Ryan Merrill
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