This morning I heard that John Hubbell and Dave Powell had found a flock of White-winged Crossbills along Hipsely Mill Road just north of the junction with Annapolis Rock Road at about 9:30 AM.   By the time I arrived the crossbills were long gone so eventually went to a row of Spruce trees heavily loaded with cones about a mile away.    Within a few minutes I found a flock of White-winged Crossbills quietly feeding.   Enjoyed watching them for several minutes and managed to get a couple of photos during the brief times they were exposed.  Then the flock became fairly vocal just before they flew off in a southerly direction at 1150AM.  Counted 20 birds in the flock.  Ironically, after looking for the Greater White-fronted Goose in vain this morning at Brighton Dam, I had gone to this same line of trees to look for WWCB at 8:30 but only saw a lone Blue Jay warming itself in the sun.

The rest of the group that had been looking for the crossbills arrived about 2 minutes after the WW Crossbills flew.  Later, as we were standing around pondering our next move, Jeff Culler noticed a distant bird with white wingbars had popped up and Kurt Schwarz confirmed it as a female WW Crossbill.  Later, three female WW Crossbills were well seen in these trees.

The tree-lined driveway is on the east side of Jennings Chapel Road about 1/4 - 1/2 mile southeast  of the junction with Hipsely Mill Road.  The driveway is a private road and parking is very limited along Jennings Chapel.

Bill Hill
Glenwood, Md.