[texbirds] Red Crossbill in Lubbock
- From: Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:41:30 -0700 (PDT)
Greetings All:
I am now willing to cast my vote for the weird weather hypothesis regarding my
recent streak of new yard birds. Yard bird # 105 showed up today - while I was
watching yesterday's White-throated Sparrow (yard bird #104) joust with the
House Sparrows below the dove/squirrel feeder. To have new yard birds two days
in a row strains credulity; the identity of today's bird verges on the
fantastic! Initially, I thought that the bright red bird taking a bath in my
standing bird bath was a Northern Cardinal but the dark wings and dark bill
threw me. I grabbed the in-house binoculars and dashed back to the window to
discover an incredibly bright adult male Red Crossbill drying atop one of my
dwarf butterfly bushes.
I watched him for a couple of minutes and then he disappeared, rising with a
cloud of doves and House Sparrows ... and has not been seen since.
This is only the third October record of the species in our region and the
earliest previous record was also a 22nd of October ... in 1973!
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
P.S. Kudos to Cameron Carver who posted a while back, suggesting that this
might be a good year to watch for this species in our region - I hope we get
some more records to boost his Nostradomic reputation:)
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