Leucistic American Goldfinch

On Monday, October 19, 2015, I received a call from Linda Fleming at the Skagit Wild Bird Supply (located on Memorial Highway) that they had a leucistic American goldfinch at their feeders.  I dropped what I was doing, grabbed my camera and drove to the store to try to obtain photos.  The bird had left by the time I arrived, but it made three more appearances over the next 2-3 hours and I managed some good photos on one of those visits.

I checked in the next morning (Tuesday) and was told the bird was there again, so I went back over but two hours of observation were fruitless.  The bird has not been seen since mid-morning on Tuesday.

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