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The red crossbill that was at two of our feeders Mar 7 was back again early this morning (at least it was a single male). This might be the only lone crossbill in the two-state area, but I doubt it. The only others I have seen (KC area and in north) were in flocks as this one would be if he had read the books, and also there were no house finches in the area. If birders are checking house finches for purple finches, they would probably catch a crossbill, but this morning in dim light I was struck by how easily a single could be confused. What I noticed first was the bill looked larger (without binoculars), and whole bird seemed chunkier. Chunky head, darker wings, red over more of body are things I could make out with binoculars, but it would have been easy to pass over, especially since it was gone before there was enough DST light. I may have missed him on intervening mornings, when I was not yet up to look. And this was from about ten feet away in a sunflower seed feeder outside the window. T Dick Dawson 5804 Charlotte (Brookside area) Kansas City, Mo, 64110 816-361-9141 __________________________________________________ ########################################################### * Audubon Society of Missouri's * * Wild Bird Discussion Forum * *---------------------------------------------------------* * To subscribe or unsubscribe, click here: * * https://po.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mobirds-l&A=1 * *---------------------------------------------------------* * To access the list archives, click here: * * http://po.missouri.edu/archives/mobirds-l.html * * * * To access the Audubon Society of Missouri Web * * Site: http://mobirds.org * ###########################################################