12:50 bird is eating up!
On 1/26/08, Noah Kahn <> wrote:
> It's been well over a month since I saw him, but the male White-winged
> Crossbill returned to my backyard at 11:30am today. Unlike in December, he
> was alone and not with the flock of house finches that sometimes patrols the
> area.  The good news is that he ate from the thistle sock, which hopefully
> means he'll be coming around more frequently.  In December, I never saw him
> eating, instead he only drank from the water dish. Perhaps the small cone
> crop in the area is now exhausted.
>
>   You can view my backyard from Sligo Creek Pkwy, <1/4 mile west of
> Colesville Road.  I'll keep the thistle full over the next few days.  From
> the Pkwy, look north, up the hill to a wooden porch where feeders and
> thistle socks are suspended.
>
>   Good luck!
>   Noah Kahn
>   Silver Spring, MD
>
>
> Noah Kahn
>
> "There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot...like
> winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began
> to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher
> 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
> For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than
> television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable
> as free speech."
> Aldo Leopold (who else?)
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