I had a group of 50-60 pine siskins coming to my feeder in North Perry, Lake
county this afternoon (1/17).  Amongst them was one green-morph bird.
Green-morph birds appear to lack the heavy brown streaking and appear
greenish.  They closely resemble Eurasian siskins.  The green-morph birds
however have the undertail coverts heavily washed with yellow, which this
bird did.  Less than 1% of the pine siskin population are green-morph birds.
Here is a link to the 1989 American Birds article about distinguishing
Eurasian siskins from green-morph pine siskins

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~jmorlan/siskin_scan.pdf

I have placed a couple photos of the bird at:

http://www.rarebird.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3703&PID=10703#10703

In addition to the siskins, I had a single common redpoll come in briefly
with a siskin flock.   It didn't hang around.  I also had a flock of 17
WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS fly by heading west.

John Pogacnik
4765 Lockwood Road
Perry, OH 44081
(440) 259-2751

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