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Re: White-winged Crossbills - "Gunpowder Loop" & Druid Ridge

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Dottie Dowling

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Sun, 8 Feb 2009 13:10:43 +0000

Kindly remove me from your email list. I have been inundated with your emails during the last several days. I do not want them! 



Thank you, 

Dorothy Dowling , hdowni @ 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Monroe Harden" < hardenm @ SPRYNET .COM> 
To: MDOSPREY @ LSOFT .COM 
Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2009 8:04:20 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [ MDOSPREY ] White-winged Crossbills - "Gunpowder Loop" & Druid Ridge 

Steve Sanford wrote: 

From about 2:00 to 2:30 we stopped at Druid Ridge Cemetery and were pretty 
confident we heard one or two WW Crossbills , but didn't see them. Someone 
else at the west end of the long row of hemlocks said he saw 3 while we were 

by the east end. 

And I reply: 

I am that "someone else."  I saw and photographed two females on the very 
top of a hemlock about halfway between the west end of the tree row and the 
intersection by the tall " Tunstall " monument stone.  I was cued by an 
unusual pipping sound, and I saw that the source of the sound was a small 
yellow-ish breasted (with faint streaks) bird with bright, broad wing bars 
on the tippy top of a tree.  It was joined a moment later by a second.  They 
posed for photos for about a minute and then they flew off to the south.  A 
third unidentified bird joined them from within the tree as they flew away. 

Jeff and Steve were out of sight to the east so I could not immediately 
alert them.  I hopped in my car and drove down and told them of my sighting 
so that hopefully they could see the birds when they came back. 

This was at about 2:30 PM yesterday, Saturday February 7th. 

I'll have my photos posted in the near future. 

Monroe Harden 
Havre de Grace, MD 
hardenm @ sprynet .com