I was working in a white spruce stand west of the Sawbill Trail in Cook County on Tuesday when a small flock of White-winged Crossbills flew over and finally landed nearby when I pished. I heard them in the area for maybe a half hour after that. White-winged Crossbills in August...what a treat!
Shortly after, I was hiking out through some thick brush and a small bird landed on a tree in front of me. It was a male Black-throated Blue Warbler! I doubt anyone would want to thrash through the brush to get to either location, but it's cool knowing that these two species were in the same vicinity in mid-August. -- Shawn Conrad http://users.2z.net/itasca_chippewa_birding/ ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
