North East Birder Ramlings: More pictures of Coues' Arctic Redpoll

This is a blog post that will be dedicated only to the Coues' Arctic Redpolls, or possible birds at Rainton Meadows. It will have a selection of images taken by 5 people and the images are ALL of confirmed, identifiied Coues' Arctic Redpolls at Rainton Meadows DWT.

Some of you may not be aware but there are 3 Coues' Arctic Redpolls at Rainton Meadows:
Bird 1 - 'Tramline'
Bird 2 - 'Snowball'
Bird 3 - 'Feeder Bird 1'

First here are a selection of some of the best images of Bird 1, 'Tramline'

(Coues' Arctic Redpoll - © Mark Newsome)

(Coues' Arctic Redpoll - © Ray Scott)

(Coues' Arctic Redpoll - © Steve Clifton)

Bird 2 - "The Snowball"

(Coues' Arctic Redpoll - © Gary Woodburn)

Bird 3 - 'Feeder Bird 1'

(Coues' Arctic Redpoll - © Ray Scott)

Previously I thought this was another bird, however its the same bird as above just in different lighting conditions. It looks far nicer when the light catches it.

(Coues' Arctic Redpoll - © Andrew Kinghorn)

Couple of Video Grabs, best to click on each image to enlarge and then zoom in:

Here are some screenshots from a video by Steve Clifton, I believe this is one of the above birds. In the field it did have very fine flank, it was only seen a few times and very briefly so a hard bird to study. Could be a Mealy at the extreme end (flank streaking):

Hope you enjoyed the photos.

Until next time, Foghorn out!

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

More pictures of Coues' Arctic Redpoll

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