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Re: White-winged Crossbill: Silver Spring

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Dan haas

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Dan haas

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Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:20:42 -0500

sorry, I forgot to sign off.

Left at 1:15. Bird is still eating at the nyger sock feeders. Thank
you Noah and thank you traffic on the beltway that made me check email
on the way from Annapolis to Rockville.

Dan Haas
Annapolis, MD

On 1/26/08, Dan haas <> wrote:
> 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?)
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Never miss a thing.   Make Yahoo your homepage.
> >
> >
>