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on 6/12/07 10:31 PM, Joan Czapalay at joancz@ns.sympatico.ca wrote:
> 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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.....I'm very glad it did happen to you, James...great experience for
you!....Barb
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