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Elusive Jordan Lake Crossbills



The elusive Crossbills must have flown the coop....
After Will's wonderful tale from Sunday's Christmas
count and Doug's siting on Monday, I have been
searching since.

Shelley Theye and I went from 12:45-2:25 on Tuesday
under very windy conditions. Saw lots of others
feeding/flying:
Brown Creeper, BH Nuthatch, Bluebird flock 20+/- (any
explanation for this phenomenon??), GF's, a nice
mustardy Pine Warbler that got our hopes up


I figured yesterday after the front blew through and
the PF's and Pine Siskins stayed on my feeders all day
that it was a sign to check again. I ran into Claudia
Egelhoff and her friend, Russell, who came from
Raleigh
to search. We were there later in the afternoon around
3:30. It was very quiet. Claudia recalls the
White-winged CB's in Alaska showing preference for
similar habitat that had pines and had been recently
cut over.
This site has a new road cut through for the turkey
hunters.

Anyone else been out to look or have any further
suggestions?

Jill Froning DVM
south of Chapel Hill/n. Chatham Co. 
sjfroning@yahoo.com





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