Subject: Mt. Dickerman -- White-winged Crossbills
Date: Aug 10 07:51:02 1999
From: Michael Dossett - phainopepla at yahoo.com


Hi Tweets,

Sunday afternoon, I went up to Lake 22, just west of the Big Four Ice
Caves...Lots of Red Crossbills, and I heard one white winged (but never
saw it) up at the lake.

Michael Dossett
Bothell
Phainopepla at yahoo.com

--- lu&krk <xenops at email.msn.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Several of us (Patrick Sullivan, Greg Toffic, and
> myself) headed up Mt.
> Dickerman on July 18 to look for White-tailed
> Ptarmigan only to be turned
> back by lots of snow and fog just as we were
> entering Mt. Hemlock type
> forest. The only quality birds were White-winged
> Crossbills flying by and
> again heard down at the Big Four parking area near
> the ice caves. A week
> ago I was up at the ice caves again and did not hear
> any White-winged
> Crossbills just the commoner Red Crossbills which
> have moved into our area
> in a big way the first week of June.
>
> Ken Knittle, Gold Bar
> xenops at msn.com
>
>
>
>

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