[Birdtalk] Red Crossbills at Pineview

[JOEL and KATHY BEYER]

Add us to the list.  We just had a female Red Crossbill eating black-oil sunflower seed from our hanging tray feeder.  A new yard bird!
We're in Holladay (SLC).

Joel and Kathy

> From: jeff.holt7 at gmail.com
> To: birdtalk at utahbirds.org
> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:21:35 -0600
> Subject: [Birdtalk] Red Crossbills at Pineview
> 
> All winter it's been siskin, juncos, goldfinches and the occaisional  
> house finch at the feeder.
> 
> The list mentioned crossbills at people's feeders during the week and  
> I thought, that could never happen at my feeder. But about ten minutes  
> ago during a strong flurry of snow, two male and two female red  
> crossbills muscled in amongst the forty odd birds and began to feast  
> on the oil seed on the ground. The whole family was treated to about  
> five minutes of those strange looking ans colorful birds so close to  
> the house,
> 
> Then a bald eagle swooped into one of the cottonwoods. He was there  
> for just a few minutes in the strong wind. And there is a single pair  
> of Red-breasted mergangers on the open water section of the ice in the  
> Lake.
> 
> Bird life in the middle of this wind and snow.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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