Hello all from MerryLynn,
After looking thru more than 200 photos we shot of the redpolls - (I took dozens of the flock hoping I would get a Hoary in the picture but none blow up clear enough) I cropped a few more and put on our flickr site - for those interested.
Would have been wonderful to get photos of the adult Hoary that I could pick out with the scope - and showed to others - but it never came in and posed. It was so frosty silvery grey on the back we could pick it out in flight - which is where we saw it most as the flock was in flight most of the time. Looking thru the photos there are birds that show field marks of both species - like the AB article says - not easy to ID.
We welcome comments - and the flock was still there yesterday but extremely windy - nasty weather today so won't head out.
Thanks for comments - ML
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Mike & MerryLynn Denny
Birding the beautiful Walla Walla Valley

"If you haven't birded, you haven't lived"