crossbills

I'd hoped do find some white-winged crossbills at Salisbury too, but they did not show themselves today.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

Then it was on to Salisbury Beach campground in hopes of white-winged crossbills or Lapland longspurs or who knows what.

Snowy Owl 2009

I keep expecting them and the siskins and crossbills to vanish -- like Attilla's Golden Horde or the passenger pigeons, such a rapacious lifestyle requires moving on to pastures new every now and then.

Hitting the reset button jhetley 2009

Then it was on to Salisbury Beach campground in hopes of white-winged crossbills or Lapland longspurs or who knows what.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

I had hoped to enter our Whole Hells of Birds into their statistical universe, as several of the species redpolls, crossbills, and siskins are only occasional visitors to our shores.

Still windy jhetley 2009

But no sign of the swarming masses redpolls, siskins, crossbills this morning.

The moving finger writes . . . jhetley 2009

And the crossbills have added their bulk, at least eight for sure and probably twice that.

Minor bird-storm jhetley 2009

A similar nomadic lifestyle is found in small passerine seed-eating birds such as redpolls and crossbills (Loxia spp.) in the forest tundra.

General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels 2009

Periodic raids by the Hun Horde redpolls, siskins, crossbills, and goldfinches on our resources.

Happy Presidents' Day jhetley 2009

In with the miscellaneous finches Wife says that pine siskins and redpolls are also finches we had at least six white-winged crossbills.

Feathered storm jhetley 2009