Invasion of the Sunflower Seed Snatchers

They don't arrive in twos and threes.  They arrive in dozens--three, four, six dozen at a time.

Herds of them, overrunning everything.  A flash mob of redpolls.

 

 

Chasing all the other birds away from the feeder, like the gentle pine grosbeaks.

Female pine grosbeak

Male pine grobeak in bush with redpoll.

The only bird that can scare them away emporarily is the black billed magpie.  It still rules the roost, because it would just as soon fly off with a redpoll in its beak as a black oil sunflower seed.

Black-billed magpie.

Good thing these redpolls are so cute.

 

 

 

Finally got the seed out of the hull.