Between 9 and 10a.m. Sunday morning, Dec.12, 2 of us were fixed on 3 Redpolls, 2 of which had no lateral streaking, very little /if any pink on the breast and were noticeably whiter. Later in the morning as many as 30 Redpolls were seen feeding in the upper branches of a row of tall White Birch trees paralleling the Hall's Rd.roadside north of the entry to the south pathway. Sure enough 2 of them "stood out" from the others, and a few more birders ID'd them as Hoary Redpolls.
Perhaps 20 more visitors came to see the Golden-crowned Sparrow-- to my knowledge, in spite of the snow, he did not come out, even with the 3 White-throateds. Hall's Rd. runs south from Victoria St., 1 block east of LakeRidge Rd., in southwest Whitby. Doug Lockrey, Whitby
