Image of Crossbill

Description:

I'm going back to some of my earliest wildlife images. These are scans from old prints and slides. This day had heavy overcast and light drizzle. This is the best I can do to adjust the color balance on these old images. The late Fall of 1984 showed a widespread invasion of crossbills in Texas. I had just seen and photographed a few in Boerne, TX, on this same morning and had driven to Big Spring to chase a Greater Pewee reported there earlier by Mark Lockwood. Upon arriving at the city park south of town, I found as many as 20 foraging on arbor vitae cones in the park. These are the only usable images I obtained of those birds. (My image of the Greater Pewee is even worse.)