Another Christmas Bird Count has come to an end in the Bow Valley. We started out with a cool morning, but layers of cloths and variety of chocolates fixed that. Two-third of the birds we saw were the White-winged Crossbills, no surprise there with the abundance of spruce cones throughout the valley. The crossbills have been all over the seeds the cones supply, this summer, fall and now the winter. It's hard to be out there and not hear the crossbills top of the trees. It was good day for us on our route, spotting thirteen species middle of the winter in the Canadian Rockies. I was not able to get any good pictures of the crossbills, but did of Pine Grosbeak.
Until next moment,
Amar
