The poll of polls

An individual redpoll.

And this one's red.  These pictures might give a little indication why the birds have gone through about 75 pounds of seeds this winter and it's only the middle of January.  This group is made up of common redpolls and they fly in clouds.  I would guess I have had as many as 100 in the yard at one time.  They tend to push the other birds out of the way but amid the flock there are always the usual chickadees, nuthatches and grosbeaks.

Gathering at the sunflower hearts feeder.

Some snow finally fell, too.  So, it's beginning to look a lot more like winter, after about two weeks of bare, brown ground.

So, the poll.  How many redpolls do you count in the photo at the bottom, the big one.  Those are thistle seeds they are fighting over.

This is the contest. How many redpolls do you see.

Winner gets to buy the next bag of thistle seeds with their thank you.