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• Feb. 5, 2008 - Redpoll, a pretty visitor from the Far North

Suddenly, as if a signal had been given, all spread their wings at the same instant and flew up in a birch-tree not far away. All seemed to take wing at precisely the same instant. Up in the birch-tree they sat for a minute or so and then, just as if another signal had been given, all began to pick out the tiny seeds from the birch tassels. No one bird seemed to be first. It was quite like a drill, or as if each had thought of the same thing at the same instant. Peter chuckled over it all the way home. And somehow he felt better for having made the acquaintance of the Redpolls. It was the feeling that everybody so fortunate as to meet them on a gold (cold) winter's day is sure to have.

From: The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess (Chapter XLIV - More Folks In Red: The Pine Grosbeak and the Redpoll); in Public Domain.

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