Previous early fall records of Red Crossbills in Maryland:
Aug. 11, 1995 - 1 at Mt. Nebo WMA
Aug. 19, 1972 - 5 at Carey Run Sanctuary
Sept. 2, 1993 - 1 at Town Hill Hawkwatch
Sept. 3, 1972 - 27 at Swallow Falls SP
Sept. 11 or 12, 1956 - 2 at Ocean City Operation Recovery Banding Station
Sept. 12 & 13, 1955 - no.? at Ocean City Operation Recovery Banding Station
Oct. 1, 1983 - 1 at Black Marsh, Baltimore Co.
Oct. 6, 1985 - 3 at Sandy Point SP
Oct. 6, 2001 - 2 at Town Hill Hawkwatch
& in DC:
Oct. 10, 1886
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Dan Haas <nervousbirds...> wrote:
> Jared, Todd, et all,
>
> Saturday AM, Bill Schreitz joined me for sunrise at Sandy Point. We
> noticed this one bird, and I actually joked with Bill about it being a
> Red Crossbill. It was calling, but we wrote it off as a Goldfinch.
> Perhaps I should blame my untrained ears or maybe, I just need to
> remember to always expect the unexpected (and to be more thorough in
> the field). In any case, it was a gray morning and I was trying to
> show Bill where to look in the pine, so I fired off a shot (two
> actually) to show him in my camera where to train his bins. It sat
> motionless and we marveled at two Red-breasted Nuthatches instead of
> focusing on this bird.
>
> Bad call? Here are the two shots. They're hardly satisfactory, but
> unedited in terms of saturation, exposure, etc.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/nervousbird/7919091966/
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/nervousbird/7919092250/
>
> Good Birding,
>
> Dan Haas
> St. Margaret's, MD
>
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Jared Fisher <Jared.Fisher...>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Red crossbills are definitely on the move. I came across this link on the
> > cape may bird observatory 'view from the field' blog last week
> >
> http://cmboviewfromthefield.blogspot.com/2012/08/morning-flight-musings-red-crossbills.html
> > You can also see from ebird maps a pretty amazing august push in the
> midwest
> > and noteworthy sightings in the northeast.
> >
> > Jared Fisher
> > Bethesda, MD
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:14 PM, <BlkVulture...> wrote:
> >>
> >> Nope, that's not a typo.
> >>
> >> This afternoon at about two-thirty PM, I was sitting on my pier with my
> >> wife and father, facing the bay, when I started to hear a distinct call
> over
> >> the water. The bird seemed relatively high, and sounded like it was
> flying
> >> toward me. My first instinct was some immature tern or shorebird sound
> that
> >> I hadn't heard before, but whatever it was sounded a lot like a Red
> >> Crossbill. Then I found the bird against the bright, white sky, and
> >> realized that it was indeed a songbird, and it was flying in an
> undulating
> >> flight directly toward me. I got it in binoculars, but can only add
> that it
> >> was a good fit for a finch (size, general shape, flight style). I
> couldn't
> >> see any other details.
> >>
> >> The call was a clear JIP-JIP JIP-JIP-JIP, perhaps a bit flatter and
> >> harsher than some crossbills I've heard, and constant during the ten or
> so
> >> seconds of my observation.
> >>
> >> Yep, I'd be doubting this one too. No offense taken!
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Todd
> >>
> >> -------------------------------
> >> Todd Michael Day
> >> Jeffersonton, Virginia
> >> Culpeper County
> >> <blkvulture...>
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