I have roughly 100 redpolls here today. While they do that "startle flight" a lot, they do spend a fair amount of minutes, each time, feeding on my deck rail & on the ground under my hanging feeders, so they're not quite as twitchy as George's flock, I don't think. The flock includes several goldfinches and a few pine siskins. Donna Lansing Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott
On Jan 10, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Geo Kloppel <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm back to at least 200 Redpolls in the yard. These birds feed for a few > dozen seconds, then bolt en masse to the treetops as if at some alarm, then > after a few more seconds they begin spilling back down to the feeders. Within > a minute they're all back, and then they all bolt again. This nervous > feed-and-startle cycle repeats for perhaps fifteen or twenty minutes, then > they all disappear for a variable interval (from minutes to hours), then they > return and do it all again... So perhaps they are both skittish AND twitchy. > > -Geo Kloppel > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
