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Gunpowder Loop WW Crossbills, siskins, RB Nuthatch

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Jim Wilkinson

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Jim Wilkinson

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Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:26:12 -0500

Today (2/21) along the Gunpowder Loop Trail, I enjoyed viewing 2 male and 3 female White-winged Crossbills between 12:30 and 1:15 PM in the larch trees on the north side of the first large field. The crossbills were feeding on larch cones in the company of about a dozen Pine Siskins a goldfinch, several chickadees and titmice, and one Red-breasted Nuthatch. On the way back down the trail I observed a flock of 8 Eastern Bluebirds and four Yellow-rumped Warblers. This trail starts about 50 yards north of Hoffmanville Cemetery on the west side of Gunpowder Road. 

Along Beckleysville Road a maybe a half mile west of Prettyboy Lake, I heard a Barred Owl and saw one Pine Siskin. There were 6 Cedar Waxwings feeding in a row of small crabapple trees on Middletown Road across from the Prettyboy Elementary School. Thanks much to Kevin Graff for finding the birds at the Gunpowder Loop Trail and to other birders for the updates.
 
Jim Wilkinson
Columbia, MD