Adding to the chorus of red crossbill announcements, I saw three of these great favorite birds flying from a sapling ash or similar such tree to a red pine beside Hartley Pond at Hartley Nature Center this morning. Two birds were the old gold of frostbitten goldenrod and one was the red of a certain dark historic lipstick or red-orange crayon; I can't name another bird that's exactly that shade of red. None had wingbars, and they gave that diminutive syllable in flight that characterizes them as a kind of bird too preoccupied with getting places to have very much to say--internal remarks only.
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