Glad to hear that they are still around - our neighbor in Highland Park hosted a flock a couple of times in December .
Tom Gilde Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 30, 2021, at 7:07 AM, Brian Tennessen <brian.tennes...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > A group of White-winged Crossbills has visited our backyard, observed on a > few occasions over the last month. We live in St. Paul, Mac-Grovelamd > neighborhood > > First seen on Jan. 15-16, then again this past week, on Jan. 27. The > earlier viewing I would say ~10 + birds, second viewing maybe a bit fewer, > ~6. The first viewing I observed both males and females, the later viewing > I only spotted females. > > We have a group of pine trees with many small cones, this is where the > birds were foraging. > > Both I and my neighbor friend who also observed, submitted these to eBird > on the earlier occasion, and just my neighbor submitted on this week’s > sighting. None of these submissions showed up on eBird rare bird alerts. We > are puzzled as to why, not sure what we are doing wrong. I see other local > White-winged Crissbill sightings are making the list. I realize this is > not an eBird forum but if anyone had any insight on this, we would be > interested to know.. > > I will submit these sightings to the MOU database later today.. > > An interesting behavior observed is that they do not seem to take great > care to grab hold of any given cone and really exhaust it’s contents before > moving on—the cones really fall like rain when they are going at it! We > have a carpet of cones on the ground. > > Brian T. > St. Paul > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social distancing, and continue to bird responsibly.
