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From: David Bailey <davidcbaileyoregon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [obol] Re: Coastal crossbills article
To: larspernorgren@xxxxxxxxx
Regarding foods eaten by Red Crossbills other than conifer seeds, I have
seen them cracking and eating sunflower seeds when flocks visited our
feeders in the Alameda neighborhood of NE Portland for many days one winter
long ago. I have also found them in the Trout Creek Mountains of Harney
County in the Mt. Mahogany stands where I presumed they were foraging for
the seed of that tree. The Mountain Mahogany Crossbill is a yet to be
described species?
David C. Bailey
Seaside, Oregon
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 1:49 PM, Lars Per Norgren <larspernorgren@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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Alan Contreras found Red Crossbills in alders on the Coquille Valley CBC a
few years ago. At the townsite of Prosper I believe. It probably happens
more often than we think. They are remarkably quiet when feeding. Tim
Rodenkirk and I found them 10 or 12 feet off the ground feeding in pines a
block off Hwy 101 on the Port Orford CBC. It was by accident, as I was
pursuing the calls of Red-breasted Nuthatches. The Crossbills never made a
sound, and their greenish plumage on a very sunny day at noon was admirable
camoflage. lpn
On Jan 19, 2018, at 1:06 PM, marty bray wrote:
We found Bill Tweit's article about crossbills in *ebird Pacific NW* to
be informative. We have continued to see small flocks of Red Crossbills
in Beaver Creek Natural Area and Ona Beach State Park (Lincoln County) for
the past few weeks, although there seem to be fewer birds than in November
and December.
In addition, and to our surprise, on two different occasions (1/7/18 and
1/15/18) we observed flocks of Red Crossbills (15 and 11 respectively)
extracting seeds from female red alder catkins at Beaver Creek Natural Area.
In both instances, we heard the flocks fly in and watched them land in the
alders, where they proceeded to feed silently. If we hadn't heard them fly
in, we probably would not have detected them. Unfortunately, we weren't
able to get a recording to determine which red crossbill Type they were.
Cheers,
Marty and Jeannie Bray
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Robert O'Brien <baro@xxxxxxx> wrote:
