A recent acquaintance, Jared Del Rosso, birds often in Cheesman Park and the nearby Botanic Gardens.
-- He found a malocclusion of Red Crossbills in the NE corner of that park this afternoon, and I was able
to get over there in time to find them feeding in a tall Blue Spruce. He had estimated that there were 6-9
in this orthodontically-challenged group, both males and females.
They have roamed that corner and were most recently been seen high in the tallest and most north-easterly spruce in
a line of spruces.
Jared also found a sapsucker there yesterday and thought it to be a Female Red-naped Sapsucker, based on a very limited amount
of white under the chin. As you know, this is a tough individual to distinguish from a Male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, convergent
evolution at its best.
Joe Roller,
Denver
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