Date: 12/2/12 9:13 am
From: Brad Phoebus <sinner539...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Re: White-winged Crossbills, Gunpowder Falls SP Sweet Air


On Sunday, December 2, 2012 12:11:06 PM UTC-5, Brad Phoebus wrote:
> Thanks for the post yesterday saying these were around there.
>
> Went up there this morning to maybe find some of these and the persistent fog made it difficult. But near the end of my time there at about 10:15 I was seeing lots of movement in the trees on Dalton Bevard rd and after a few mins a group of 5 finch-looking birds took off from near the top of one tree to the next one. Moved in a got a look in my 12-power binocs and sure enough there was the red finch with the distinctive wingbars. They disappeared after a minute or so but I was happy to see them.
>
> Other birds of note include RB Nuthatch, Golden-crowned Kinglet, a Barred Owl getting mobbed to hell and back by some crows, Hairy Woodpecker, Brown Creeper.
>
> And yes Matt Hafner and Jim Stasz, I submitted it to Ebird.

Brad Phoebus,
Baltimore MD

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