Great find, Jeremy and Mark.

You make reference to Red crossbills breeding a few years ago in Oak
Openings Preserve Metropark.  While a dozen or so Red crossbills were seen
repeatedly in May 2009, and I saw a female crossbill possibly gathering
nesting material later in June, I'm not aware that definitive breeding
evidence was observed.  If someone knows otherwise, I'd love to know the
details.


Matt Anderson
Whitehouse, OH

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Date:
01/11/2012 04:19 PM
Subject:
[Ohio-birds] Red Crossbills - Lucas County
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At 2:35PM on January 10th Mark Rozmarynowycz and I found a flock of 18 Red
Crossbills in the Oak Openings Metropark (OOMP) in Lucas County.  They
were
seen low along the bike trail 100m west of Girdham Road. Striking red
males
and yellow females were watering as a flock in the ditch beside the bike
trail for about 5min.  They collectively flew southwestward into the
thinned
pine stand where the species bred a few years ago (N41.556,W-83.855).

Other notable birds seen within the OOMP included: a Northern Shrike
inside
the swath of tornado damage just west of the closed section of Wilkins
Road
(N41.541, W-83.840); 2 Pileated Woodpeckers (flying); 15 Pine Siskins (at
Buehner Center feeders); and 5 Red-headed woodpeckers (Red Trail south of
the Girdham Rd sand dunes).

Jeremy Ross

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