Monday, December 24, 2007

Common Redpoll - Fitchburg, MA.




"These winter days I occasionally hear the note of a goldfinch, or maybe a redpoll, unseen, passing high overhead." ---

Thoreau: Journal - January 27, 1860


This little female Redpoll was photographed in Fitchburg, MA. on December 24, 2007. She was feeding on my windowsill and taking brief breaks in a tree to probably consume what she had stored in her mouth. She was actively eating with a group of Blackeyed Juncos.

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