We have glimpsed a similar flock several times in Prospect Park (just across the city limit in Minneapolis) Susan
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 30, 2021, at 7:24 AM, Thomas Gilde <thegl...@q.com> wrote: > > 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. ---- 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.
