Fairly certain we saw at least three Hoaries in the throngs of Redpolls at the Ft. Collins museum this morning--
One male, bending down into the seed tray under the thistle feeder had completely unstreaked white underparts, though, with his head down, his bill wasn't visible.
One female in the shrubs had a very 'pushed-in' looking bill, though her underparts weren't visible; another male, perched next to a male Common, had a remarkably small bill, compared side-by-side with the bird next to him.
A lurking Kestrel kept the Redpolls sitting in one spot long enough to make such comparisons, though a cruising juv Coopers sent the whole flock packing for a while. When they returned, it was a smaller flock-- probably 40 or 50-- about half of what was there between 8am and about 9:30.
Dave Cameron
Denver
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