We checked Green Lawn Cemetery (Columbus) at about 2:00 PM and found a flock of White-winged Crossbills in the hemlocks in section J. We estimated 25 birds, male and female. Doug and Deena Snapp --------- Feeding Shakespeare's birds in Grandview Heights... On Dec 3, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Aaron Boone wrote: > Dave Slager and I were interested in checking some of the Columbus > cemeteries for crossbills. I met Dave this morning at his home > along the > Olentangy River just south of OSU. He had joked with me yesterday > about > starting our search with the single spruce tree in his backyard but > that > didn't turn out to be such a bad idea. I pulled up a few minutes > late and > just shy of a female WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL that briefly landed in > the top > of the spruce! Dave said it flew in noisily, landed just long > enough for > him to get great looks and then flew south along the river. Hoping > that to > be a major omen, we headed north to the Union Cemetery off Olentangy > River > Road. We didn't have any luck at either the west or east unit but > this > cemetery is fairly large and should be checked. > > Our next stop was Greenlawn Cemetery and after just a few minutes of > arriving at an area with some hemlocks (Sections G & I), we had a male > WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL fly in noisily and land briefly. It wasn't > perched > for very long but circled back once and headed into the interior of > the > cemetery. This bird was heard before it was seen and if you're not > familiar > with either species' calls, I would highly recommend visiting the > Cornell > Lab's Macaulay Library web site ( > http://www.birds.cornell.edu/MacaulayLibrary/) to listen to some of > their > many recordings. > > Good birding! > > -- > Aaron Boone > Columbus, OH > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/ > . > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]