UPDATE: Carroll County Crossbills
Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Thu, 18 Dec 1997 21:29:05 -0500
On Thursday, December 18, 1997, Marshall Iliff, Mark Hoffman, and George
Jett visited my office at Liberty Reservoir to check for crossbills. See
Mark Hoffman's posting for their sightings.
In addition to their sightings, around 1430, I had a flock of 10 Red
Crossbills fly into the tops of the White Pines and feed on the pine
cones. They stayed for about 10 minutes, then took flight circling over
the buildings, constantly calling "jip, jip ,jip......"
The Reservoir Natural Resources Office is located at 5685 Oakland Road
in Eldersburg, Carroll County. I'm there Monday through Thursday from
8AM to 6PM. Feel free to stop in while I'm there. Unfortunately, the
highly nomadic crossbills may decide not to be there. Please note that
there are "No Parking" signs along that stretch of Oakland Road except
near the end of the road.
AFTERTHOUGHT: There is no reason to think that this is the only
watershed location where there are crossbills. They could be at any of
the pine/spruce/hemlock/cedar locations at either Liberty, Loch Raven,
or Prettyboy Reservoirs.