"Got crossbills? If not, we can share! For the past few weeks we've had continuous numbers of Red Crossbills visiting our sunflower seed feeders. They are present all day and readily seen.... We estimate approximately 20-30 birds."I informed my ever-patient non-birder husband that we'd be going to see the birds after work on Friday.
We drove to the specified address where the birds were indeed easily seen busying themselves at the feeder in the company of American and lesser goldfinches, house finches and evening grosbeaks. The poster/resident saw us peering with binoculars from the other side of his fence and generously invited us into his yard to get a good look. The birds were relatively unconcerned with us standing only a few feet away just beneath their feeder, and we got great views of several juveniles, females and brick-colored males.
