Currently have about 220 redpolls feeding in my back yard. Numbers had dropped
off these past two weeks, and reading other reports from southern MN, I thought
the large flock I'd been feeding all winter was gone. I always have
goldfinches in the winter, but the redpolls seemed to have
My 70-120 redpolls are also gone. Hard to keep track, but there were days
when 120 seemed low...
The seed was only about 1/2 gone when I filled it this morning. Other days
during the last few months it was completely empty in about 2 days!!
Holly Peirson
SE Anoka Co.
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We have about six to twelve Goldfinches regularly coming to the sunflower
feeders, along with about the same number of House Finches. Pine Siskins
come in for short periods of time, but I can often hear them in the tree
tops. It has seemed like only two to four were around most of the winter,
I find these regional and local movements of finches fascinating. The hard
part is that the tools we have to track those movements don't work well for
these species. To figure out what they're really doing, we need to be able
to follow individual birds, and that's nearly impossible for small,
Matt et al.--
I do not recall ever recapturing a siskin or a redpoll in a subsequent year
from banding. None of my redpolls were ever found elsewhere, although I am
aware of a South Dakota-banded redpoll being recovered in Connecticut. I
have had South Dakota siskins recaptured in California and
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