Every morning just after sunrise, the otherwise dormant bare birch trees that surround our cabin, burst to life with the trills and flickering of redpolls. Thousands of these small energetic birds invade the forest canopy, shaking the seeds from birch catkins and stuffing them in their stretchy throat pouches. Mixed flocks of both Common and Hoary Redpolls have been around all season, but their numbers have certainly increased as winter slowly turns to spring. Amazingly these small birds can thrive in temperatures below -50° F, by increasing their insulating plumage and tunneling into the snow at night. Now wouldn't that just be an adorable sight to stumble upon, a tunnel of downy redpolls.
Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + 1.4x, ISO-640 f/5.6 @ 1/320 sec.
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