Pretty little Common Redpolls

These are such pretty little birds, though somehow they don't look quite so cute in this photo - for one thing, you can't really see the large, red dot on their forehead. The upper left bird is a male with his touch of pink - who said males don't wear pink, lol? The rest are females. Taken on 18 December 2012, when a small group of us took part in the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count in High River (south of Calgary). We drove all the backroads in the SE quadrant of the huge circle that centres on the town, calling in at several farms along the way.