An aborted attempt to leave the house by car--had to rush back inside for the binoculars as I was hearing that electric sort of sound that suggests a flock of crossbills . There must have been 30 to 40 birds in all the color combinations, drab and bright. I don't know if red crossbills ever consort with white-winged but these, all I could pick out in their momentary visit at the tops of our spruce windbreak, were white-winged. They bounded off to the southeast on a cue that I hope had little to do with my presence in a red jacket.
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