To describe my lifelong fascination with flight and with creatures that fly I like to echo the words of John James Audubon who in 1839 wrote of himself as "...one who never can cease to admire and to study with zeal and the most heartfelt reverence, the wonderful productions of an Almighty Creator."
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Red Crossbill near the Oregon Coast
Today I happened to be in Pacific City, Oregon, and noticed a small flock of Red Crossbills working on the cones in some young Lodgepole Pine trees growing just a few hundred yards from the beach. Of the eight different forms of Red Crossbill identified in North America, I assume that this one is of the Type 3 group, also designated by some experts as the Sitka Crossbill. It is found mainly between the Cascade Mts. and the coast. Since this one is so yellow, rather than red, it must be a female or perhaps a young male.
Today I happened to be in Pacific City, Oregon, and noticed a small flock of Red Crossbills working on the cones in some young Lodgepole Pine trees growing just a few hundred yards from the beach. Of the eight different forms of Red Crossbill identified in North America, I assume that this one is of the Type 3 group, also designated by some experts as the Sitka Crossbill. It is found mainly between the Cascade Mts. and the coast. Since this one is so yellow, rather than red, it must be a female or perhaps a young male.
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