BTW, the location on the hill described below is now marked with a
cinder block found lying in the woods.  I dipped on locating the bird
yesterday afternoon.

Tom Marko
Olney, MD
Montgomery Bird Club


-----Original Message-----
From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Dave Powell
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:54 PM
To: 
Subject: [MDOSPREY] WW Crossbill

Hi Everyone,

Barbara Gearhart and I tried for the White-Winged Crossbill this
morning. We were successful, but the looks were much like yesterdays, a
brief two second glimpse of the bird. Time was around 1030 AM, we were
across the footbridge and up the hill a bit. There were about 20-25
House Finches feeding on Poplar seeds. It appeared the crossbill came
from the neighboring houses with a group of six to eight House Finches.
After the second look, most of the birds flew and we could not locate
any large group of House Finches and left around 1230.

Regards,

Dave Powell
 
Germantown, MD