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Re: Common Redpoll



Someone stopped in the shop on Saturday describing a Red Poll in Durham.
Their description was quite complete.

Ted Zoller
outdoorbird@mindspring.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Cook" <cwcook@duke.edu>
To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: Common Redpoll


> I got a call today from someone in Durham (Anderson St.) who saw a
Common
> Redpoll (black chin and all) at her feeder.  I asked her to call me
back if
> she sees it again and warned her that there would be dozens of people
> wanting to come see it.  I'll pass along any news ASAP.
>
> Anxiously waiting for the phone to ring...
>
> Will
>
> On 21 Feb 00, at 16:28, Jerrold Griggs wrote:
>
> >
> > The election is over in South Carolina, but not the Polling!
> >
> > This morning, while cleaning windows in my second floor study, I
checked
> > the birds on the feeder below and was astonished to see finch with a
> > red head cap, not red all around like a male House Finch or Purple
Finch.
> > I raced downstairs, and took photos from close range from the
kitchen
> > window (in poor light).  The black throat patch stood out, before I
> > checked the field guide and realized it should have one.  This bird
> > was mostly brownish on the back, a Common Redpoll.  Then it took
off,
> > and it hasn't been relocated.  I wrote down full details
immediately.
>
> --
> Charles W. "Will" Cook                w 919-660-7423
> cwcook@duke.edu                       h 919-967-5446
> Duke University Botany Dept., Durham, North Carolina
> http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook