Thursday, February 16, 2012

Two Barred cossbill.......

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7 comments:

Jim Welford said...

Nice one, fingers also crossed for it.

David Sutcliffe said...

Hope it stays around for a while. Well done Nigel.

martynbirder said...

Brilliant

I hate to be the one to ask, but somebody has to, has the possibility of a Common Crossbill with wing bars been considered?

lets hope it's seen again

Mick Cunningham said...

well, everyone hopes it's right but martinbirder asks a perfectly reasonable question. NK is a careful observer and look forward to seeing/hearing more as there's nothing in the post that rules out wing-barred common crossbill (tho let's hope we don't get to the point of some who say NO crossbill can be identified except by sonogram - including 2-bar!) cheers

AndyC said...

1 in a 1000 crossbills show white wingbars and therfore this species is far from straightforward.A combination of white tertial tips,difference in size and shape of the wing bars in essential to identify this species.I hope its about tomorrow its a real mega...

Mick Cunningham said...

aye, but I saw M Garner's Sheffield 2 bar. Quite a crowd waiting when I suddenly blurted out "I've got it!" followed by sinking feeling as my bird only had one bar and, from memory, no proper tertial tips! Ulp, is it a chaffinch? Then realised it WAS the bird which, as we all know now, had lost a whole row of white tipped coverts, hence only one bar and, I think, the white tertial tips had worn away (less melanin - less tough). Can't get there this w/end so will be green if you get it.

good luck.

AndyC said...

Crossbills are very difficult look at the Parrot type now down south at the moment its causing all sorts of problems.Went to ogden today for 3 hours .........nowt..tomorrow looks good but I will try again on tuesday..Good luck