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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CAU" data-source="post: 1404233" data-attributes="member: 55324">Although Common Redpolls with brown rather than grey or even greyish brown backs aren't uncommon, I'm not sure if the bird can be safely identified as such. The question is whether also a Lesser Redpoll might look like this! The buffy colour mixed with pinkish on the flanks (best visible in the second photo of post #16) is perhaps more of a Lesser Redpoll character. Here's a Redpoll (presumably from Finland), which looks like Mealy to me, showing rather similar general colour, but with greyer and duskier flanks:<a href="http://cartinafinland.fi/kuvapankki/fi/picture/45995/Urpiainen.html" target="_blank">http://cartinafinland.fi/kuvapankki/fi/picture/45995/Urpiainen.html</a>This bird (which I already linked previously) shows more buffish flanks, but on the other hand the colours of the photo look quite saturated (and the flanks are still duskier):<a href="http://www.pbase.com/lazzez/image/73362320" target="_blank">http://www.pbase.com/lazzez/image/73362320</a>Macswede's bird in post #21 shows rather buffish flanks, but you have to remember that there are also Lesser Redpolls in the Stockholm area...</blockquote>