In yesterday's post I neglected to mention that we were not the only ones in southern Maine to get their first visit from Redpolls this past Sunday [Feb. 20]. Soon after our flock arrived I went online to report the influx on the Maine birds e-mail list. When I logged into my e-mail I was amused to see several other reports from elsewhere in southern Maine: Cape Neddick, Sanford, Freeport, and Scarborough. A few other reports from the area came in after mine. I've seen no hypotheses about why all of a sudden the birds began to show up in more southerly locations than they had earlier in the winter but I suppose it has to do with weather and availability of food.
We still have them around the yard, and they're definitely providing some competition for the Usual Suspects at the feeders. I managed to get some better video footage of them today, though not yet of the flock in anything like its entirety. I used this opportunity to learn a bit more about video editing, and even got a bit silly about it all! Hey, a guy's gotta have fun, eh?
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