Ever wonder up here in northern Minnesota why Common Redpolls are not visiting your feeders? One answer is the dreaded invasive wildflower, Tansy. These finches love to chow down on the seeds … spreading spillage to plant even more Tansy. I had fun watching a flock of about 200 Common Redpolls pig out on Tansy early this morning.

And the spillage … being eaten off the snow (definitely merits my anniversary tag of #365Birds01White )

The Pine Grosbeaks did not want to miss out on the pig out … underneath a forest feeding station in Sax-Zim Bog.

Finally, just south of Meadowlands and The Bog, Ring-Necked Pheasant were also enjoying some seeds …

I have managed to get out birding the past two mornings. It has been therapeutic.