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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: mr.sharp-photo on November 05, 2011, 01:20:08 PM

Title: White-winged crossbills
Post by: mr.sharp-photo on November 05, 2011, 01:20:08 PM: This was a first for me.
Taken at Thickson Woods.
not the best of pics, but they were neat to see

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6045/6315040352_ab894cf4c8_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsharp-photo/6315040352/)
bird3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsharp-photo/6315040352/) by mr.sharp-photo (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrsharp-photo/), on Flickr

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6110/6314955878_e8d7a349de_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsharp-photo/6314955878/)
bird2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsharp-photo/6314955878/) by mr.sharp-photo (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrsharp-photo/), on Flickr

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6110/6314955878_e8d7a349de_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsharp-photo/6314955878/)
bird2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsharp-photo/6314955878/) by mr.sharp-photo (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrsharp-photo/), on Flickr
Title: Re: White-winged crossbills
Post by: Bird Brain on November 05, 2011, 03:56:32 PM: Richard ... Nice sighting! :D I love your 1st photo (unfortunately, my computer is cutting off the heads in photo 2 and 3).
Title: Re: White-winged crossbills
Post by: Irene on November 05, 2011, 05:23:07 PM: Beautiful!, I don't think I ever seen these, but I do remember last year there was a purplish/redish bird atop an evergreen, I just passed it off as a finch...unfortunately even with cropping the picture was too small for an accurate ID, now I"m wondering if it was a cross=bill
what a beautiful bird! Great sighting :)
Title: Re: White-winged crossbills
Post by: Reg on November 05, 2011, 05:28:59 PM: Lucky you, great shot, i've not seen one of these yet.
Title: Re: White-winged crossbills
Post by: Moira on November 05, 2011, 07:57:59 PM: Sign me up with the others who haven't seen one. Beautiful looking bird.
Title: Re: White-winged crossbills
Post by: mr.sharp-photo on November 05, 2011, 08:12:38 PM: i saw the flock swarm down over the road at Thickson Woods. they disappeared into trees. spent 5 min looking for them, then they were on the move.
i thought they were either bluebirds or pine siskins.
finally, i saw them eating off of a pine tree. i had to move around it to get pics that weren't into the sun.
i managed to take 2 before they took off. i wish i had better ones :(
Title: Re: White-winged crossbills
Post by: angieinto on November 06, 2011, 07:23:37 AM: We've not seen them before either. One day. :)
Title: Re: White-winged crossbills
Post by: Howieh on November 06, 2011, 10:46:14 AM: I haven't seen any reports yet this year but I saw them a couple of years ago at the Humber Arboretum along with several other interesting birds.
Title: Re: White-winged crossbills
Post by: Phiddy on November 08, 2011, 05:19:15 AM: What a nice thing to find ! Great stuff !!