[NatureNS] Birding Experience Of A Lifetime

Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:31:59 -0300
From: Joan Czapalay <joancz@ns.sympatico.ca>
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What a wonderful experience, James. Thank you for sharing. Cheers, Joan


James Hirtle wrote:
> I had an unexpected thrill this evening. Yesterday my feeders were 
> totally emptied by much bird activity and I had not had chance to fill 
> them this morning. When I arrived home from work I noted 11 red 
> crossbills trying to get at what was left. I started to fill my 
> feeders and looked to see the crossbills going to the feeders freshly 
> filled. They have a favourite though and it is a nice wire mesh feeder 
> that hangs. When I went to fill that feeder two crossbills were there. 
> I waited for them to finish feeding not wishing to disturb them. I 
> then heard a flurry of wings and before I knew it three crossbills 
> were atop my scoop readily feeding less then a foot in front of my 
> eyes. The next thing I knew two birds were perched on my arm. One 
> remained there and continued to eat seeds dropped by the others in the 
> scoop. When seeds were not present it would rach up and take a seed 
> from the scoop. At one point I had five red crossbills perched on me. 
> One adult was walking around my hat, one was on one arm another was 
> going up the arm of my sweater on the other side, one was going up my 
> chest and another was on my back. What a thrill. There were five young 
> and six adults. At one point I watched an adult regurgitate food to a 
> juvenile less than a foot from my face. An adult and a juvenile were 
> on my arm at one point also. I guess the birds must have thought I was 
> a tree as I was dressed all in black with a blue cap. Anyhow, a thrill 
> indeed and to bad no one was around to get a photo. This is something 
> like I have read about and saw pictures of in Bird Watchers Digest, 
> but never thought would happen to me.
>
> James R. Hirtle
> Dublin Shore
>
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