MA - Honey Pot Redpolls - 12/20

This morning was so crisp and beautiful that I couldn't face spending it indoors. I headed back down to the Hadley Honey Pot, scene of our sector in last Sunday's Northampton CBC. My goal was to find redpolls and then spend some time with them. Perhaps I was a little arrogant in this thought process because finding a group of co-operative redpolls proved to be a much more difficult task than I imagined......but, ultimately, I found a nice flock of about 35 birds and had them feeding as close to me as three feet. Among them, Commons, Hoaries and a couple of birds that I wasn't comfortable calling either way. For the most part, these undetermined birds also looked like Hoaries to me. The image set below features a selection of these birds, but for the time being I've avoided adding captions to them. Each image is numbered, so please feel free to have a go at identifying them yourself! All the images  are digi-scoped and were taken with a Panasonic Lumix FZ7 on the morning of December 20th, 2012 in the Hadley Honey Pot, Hampshire Co., MA.

1) redpolls - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.

 

 2) redpoll - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.
 

 3) redpoll - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.

 

 4) redpoll - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012. Same bird as in shot 3.

 



 5) redpoll - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.

 6) redpoll - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012. Same bird as image #5. 

 7) redpoll - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.

 

 8) redpolls - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.

 

9) redpolls - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.

10) redpoll - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012. Same bird as in images #3 and #4.




11) redpoll - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.




12) redpolls - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.





13) redpolls - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.





14) redpolls - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.





15) redpolls - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.

16) redpolls - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.





17) redpolls - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.

18) redpolls - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012. Same birds as images #16 and #17.




19) redpoll - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.

20) redpoll - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012.

 

21) redpoll - Hadley Honey Pot,Hampshire Co., MA. December 20th, 2012. Same bird as images #19 and #20.