This morning about 8:15 AM, I am pretty sure (just not eBird sure) that I
had 8-10 White-winged Crossbills flyover the dike heading in a SW
direction. I had just come from checking the spruce grove beyond the
impoundment area w/o success. Went back to re-check it after the flyover
but they did not stop there. Flight calls seem to match pretty well to what
I have been hearing on recordings. The millisecond look I got through the
binocs were of finch sized birds, lightish on the breast with pink flanks.
I will just have to keep practicing with finch flight calls and be ready
for next chance.
Andy Martin
Gaithersburg
eBird list below:
Hughes Hollow - McKee Beshers WMA, Montgomery, US-MD
Nov 9, 2012 7:50 AM - 8:40 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
32 species (+2 other taxa)
Mallard 2
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Turkey Vulture 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 3
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Blue Jay 9
American Crow 2
Fish Crow 1
crow sp. 15
Carolina Chickadee 8
Tufted Titmouse 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet 3
Eastern Bluebird 8
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 4
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 17
Yellow-rumped Warbler 13
Eastern Towhee 1
Song Sparrow 7
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 25
Dark-eyed Junco 1
Northern Cardinal 9
blackbird sp. 30
American Goldfinch 2
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