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"This pic is total crap, but crossbills! They are real! In Tilden! I got great looks thanks to fellow birder with an epic Zeiss scope. This couple came up to us while we were scoping and Zeiss dude told them we were looking at crossbills. The guy in the couple started freaking out. ""No way. No WAY. NO WAYY!!!"" Zeiss dude thought the guy was having him on. ""You don't actually care, do you,"" he said, crestfallen, to which the guy replied, ""No no I really do! I'm a biologist! I was almost going to bring my binoculars today!"" Totally hilarious. I thought the guy was joking too. Lesson: don't doubt a birder's birder cred just because he's not holding binos. Didn't see the Green-tailed Towhee that's supposed to be up there too, but I did see numerous people looking for it."
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"This pic is total crap, but crossbills! They are real! In Tilden! I got great looks thanks to fellow birder with an epic Zeiss scope. This couple came up to us while we were scoping and Zeiss dude told them we were looking at crossbills. The guy in the couple started freaking out. ""No way. No WAY. NO WAYY!!!"" Zeiss dude thought the guy was having him on. ""You don't actually care, do you,"" he said, crestfallen, to which the guy replied, ""No no I really do! I'm a biologist! I was almost going to bring my binoculars today!"" Totally hilarious. I thought the guy was joking too. Lesson: don't doubt a birder's birder cred just because he's not holding binos. Didn't see the Green-tailed Towhee that's supposed to be up there too, but I did see numerous people looking for it."
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One male and one female Were feeding on a old Picea abies. Heard that these trees have a massive seed production the last season before they die. This tree was the only common spruce in that area offering seeds. The crossbills really enjoyed it;) This was the first time I saw this species. For me and two friends it was one of the highlights of that area. The Saxonian Suisse is one of the most interesting natural reserves in Germany.
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One male and one female Were feeding on a old Picea abies. Heard that these trees have a massive seed production the last season before they die. This tree was the only common spruce in that area offering seeds. The crossbills really enjoyed it;) This was the first time I saw this species. For me and two friends it was one of the highlights of that area. The Saxonian Suisse is one of the most interesting natural reserves in Germany.
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One male and one female Were feeding on a old Picea abies. Heard that these trees have a massive seed production the last season before they die. This tree was the only common spruce in that area offering seeds. The crossbills really enjoyed it;) This was the first time I saw this species. For me and two friends it was one of the highlights of that area. The Saxonian Suisse is one of the most interesting natural reserves in Germany.
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One male and one female Were feeding on a old Picea abies. Heard that these trees have a massive seed production the last season before they die. This tree was the only common spruce in that area offering seeds. The crossbills really enjoyed it;) This was the first time I saw this species. For me and two friends it was one of the highlights of that area. The Saxonian Suisse is one of the most interesting natural reserves in Germany.
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feed at a sunflower seed feeder and drank from the waterfall on a manmade water feature/goldfish pond.
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Found dead, freshly hit by a car on Hartland Hill Rd. My first observation of a red crossbill