Dennis:

We missed 'em on the Everett-Marysville CBC, but just east of the count
circle we've got a regular flock of 25 or so Red Crossbills here at the
place in n. Lake Stevens since about late October (they had been absent in
the previous six months or so), the birds associated with the crowns of tall
W. Red-Cedar. They were pretty much absent around Sequim during the same
period, but our WDR party (west of Dungeness River, just north of 101) found
12 on the Sequim-Dungeness CBC Dec 18. So I think foothill or mid-montane
coniferous habitat near here or over there should produce a few, but this is
definitely not an "up" period for the species locally.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com

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