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WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS on Grandfather Mountain!!
- To: "Carolinabirds" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>, "FBC-Birds" <FBC-Birds@yahoogroups.com>
- Subject: WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS on Grandfather Mountain!!
- From: "Dwayne & Lori Martin" <dlmartin@twave.net>
- Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:00:16 -0500
- Cc: "Taylor Piephoff" <PiephoffT@aol.com>
- Reply-To: "Dwayne & Lori Martin" <dlmartin@twave.net>
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
I found a flock of at least 14 White-winged Crossbills on Grandfather Mtn.
this afternoon. They were feeding on the cones of the red spruce trees in
front of the nature museum and also a few of them went to the feeders at the
museum. I got some photos that I will post later. Also around the museum
were hundreds of Pine Siskins, a few Red Crossbills, and a large immature
accipiter that I got a couple of brief looks at but, not enough to make an
i.d. I was looking for the accipiter when I found the Crossbills. There
were a lot of cones on the trees, so the WW Crossbills might stick around
for a while. They are very tame, as I got right under a couple of them
while they were on a low branch of the tree.
Dwayne
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Dwayne & Lori Martin
Foothills Bird Club
Claremont, NC
dlmartin@twave.net
http://www.geocities.com/foothillsbirdclub/
http://www.geocities.com/ncxbill/