4 White-winged and 15 Red Crossbills at North Track 200 yards after turning onto the rd to Lake Allen. Taylor McLean
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On Feb 28, 2013, at 10:45 PM, Wayne Baumgartner <whbaumga...> wrote:
> Jason Berry and I went to Patuxent North Tract this afternoon to look for Red Crossbills and were successful. We found them about 3:15pm in the same spot as they have been widely reported: along the road to Lake Allen about one pulloff to the east of the end of the Pine Trail.
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> At first we counted perhaps 4 feeding among the cones in the top of a pine tree, and then convinced ourselves there must surely be 6, and then easily 8 as they went from tree to tree by ones and twos. When they finally took off altogether towards the east, we counted 15 birds flying out of the tree we were observing, which were joined by 6 from another tree, for 21 total. Many more than we thought.
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> We did not see any white-winged crossbills.
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> We also stopped by Patuxent South Tract to take some pictures of the Trumpeter/Trumpling Swan on Cash Lake and were successful getting some photos of mediocre quality (a bit too far for a DX SLR and 300mm lens).
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> Good birding,
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> -Wayne Baumgartner
> Washington, DC
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