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Interesting! We don't have them here.

Rusty

Thanks for sharing. I don't think we see those, but their beaks are fascinating.

I love these posts. I like birdwatching, but don’t know that I’ve seen a crossbill. We dont have enough conifers here.

I put some feeders ouside out 2nd floor bedroom window. The goldfinces surprised me — such small birds, but aggressive. They are a gregarious flocking bird, but very sqaubbly. Anoyher GF will come to an adjacent feeder, and the first one hops onto that feeder to shoo it away. No other birds for that short window of time. Chickadees, titmice, nuthatches and cardinals play nice and share. The GFs monopolize and play dog in the manger.

My Eastern Cottontails love Black Oil Sunflower seed (BOS), but now they are dinning on my raspberry canes as well — the everbearing ones.

@marilyn_c - Southern birds spotted for the first time more northerly… not a good sign I’m guessing.

I have mostly house sparrows and house finches coming to my feeder, and I do see the house finches getting aggressive with each other, fighting for their place on one of the 4 feeders.

I also have tufted titmouse, doves, blue jays, cardinals, chickadees, and woodpeckers visiting, but only in pairs or singly. And a Red-tailed hawk that regularly tries to snatch dinner.

I also have a half dozen squirrels scavenging under the feeders daily. I had a video of my effective means of keeping them from eating the seed in the feeders, but seem to have lost it. In short, I used 6' tall garden flag holders (that I already had), with a 3 ft. or so arm & hook shape on the end - and cut 2 liter soda bottles to fit over the arms. When the squirrel climbs up and tries to cross the arm to the feeder, the bottles spin and dump him off!