I've heard a few Red Crossbills recently, all of which appear to be
Type 3. One at Deer Lagoon on Whidbey Island last Friday with Evan
Houston and another this past Saturday up at the Fremont Lookout at
Sunrise with Ryan Shaw and Annie Meyer, well above treeline!
Unfortunately I wasn't fast enough with the ipod with either bird to
get a recording.

Yesterday morning over Juanita Bay where I don't typically have Red
Crossbills I was able to get a poor recording of one that does seem to
be Type 3.

Ryan Merrill
Kirkland




On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Ryan Merrill <rmerrill27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: . KDB . <buhrdz at hotmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:01 PM
> Subject: [Tweeters] Are Red Crossbills everywhere right now?
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>
>
> Hi all, I work on the shores of Grays Harbor 5 days a week and over
> the past several weeks I have had Red Crossbills virtually everywhere.
> I cover perhaps 5-10 miles of shoreline a day, from Ocean Shores to
> Westport, and lately it rarely goes 45 minutes or an hour before I
> hear crossbills again (yes Charlie, I do need to start sorting my
> crossbills by type. I will try). This also seemed to be the case as I
> worked several days this week at Willapa Bay. Also this past weekend
> in Okanogan County plenty of flyover crossbils. I wondered how many of
> our counties are seeing (hearing) this?
> Had a good time in the Okanogan... LONG-EARED & GREAT-GRAY OWLS,
> BLACK-BACKED and THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS and many other niceties.
> Thanks for any replies,
> Keith Brady
> Olympia, WA
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tweeters mailing list
> Tweeters at u.washington.edu
> http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters
>