[wisb] Re: Crossbills at feeders
- From: Ryan Brady <ryanbrady10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 22:05:39 -0700
Almost surely this is a food-related phenomenon (drought or not) but I guess
I'm asking whether we have previous precedent - and if so when - for crossbills
being forced to feeders here in such significant numbers. Quite a few reports
have come in to our WI facebook birding group as well.
Ryan Brady
Washburn, Bayfield County, WI
http://www.pbase.com/rbrady
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> Subject: [wisb] Re: Crossbills at feeders
> From: betsyacorn@xxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 23:30:46 -0500
>
> Did the drought effect a dismal cone/seed production here, and enough to send
> localized crossbills to feeders?
>
> Betsy Abert, So. Milwaukee
>
>
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> From: Ryan Brady <ryanbrady10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: wisbirdn <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sat, Feb 2, 2013 9:48 pm
> Subject: [wisb] Crossbills at feeders
>
>
> I can't ever recall so many reports of crossbills at/near feeders in the
> state.
> Can some of you who have been around longer than me provide some perspective
> on
> this phenomenon here? They typically visit feeders in the southern US during
> these types of irruptions but I don't remember it being so widespread here in
> the Upper Midwest.
>
>
> Ryan Brady
> Washburn, Bayfield County, WI
> http://www.pbase.com/rbrady
>
>
> > Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:40:45 -0600
> > From: bobmatyas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [wisb] Red Crossbills Milwaukee County
> >
> >
> > Hello Everyone.
> > You can add us to the growing list of birders with Red Crossbills in
> > our
> yards. Today, Lu Ann and I had two adult male Red Crossbills at our house
> feeders in Franklin. Actually they were eating on the ground below the
> feeders.
> Here I was always checking our conifer trees, where the White-winged
> Crossbills
> were in 2009, but unexpectedly, the Red Crossbills were on the ground.
> > Good Birding,
> > Lu Ann and Bob Matyas
> > Franklin, WI.
> >
> >
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