A female hoary redpoll briefly showed up at my feeders in North Perry this morning (3/6). The bird was amongst a group of close to 30 common redpolls. It came to my feeders behind the house and immediately worked its way to almost directly below my window. As a result, I got some great looks at it, but no photos. A few times it was close to the house that I could not even see it. At some point in time when it was that close, it disappeared. The redpolls were coming and going, but I did not see it leave and did not relocate it. The bird was a very frosty white overall. The background color on the back was whitish rather than the buffy of the common redpolls. The bill was very conical and short giving it the expected pushed in face look. The rump was white and was unstreaked. The only field mark I did not see was the undertail coverts. I have been getting a ton of common redpolls with some flocks numbering 40 or more. I had one greater redpoll (C. flammea rostrata) yesterday. It was not found today. The greater redpoll is noticeably larger and is heavily streaked with a larger bill. It appears to me that a lot of the redpolls that are visiting are just passing by in migration. If the bird returns I will advise. The last three days there has been a small movement of song sparrows. I also had a swamp sparrow yesterday and today. Lots of pine siskins around also. John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 (440) 259-2751 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]