Last week's quiz featured a rather motley looking Red Crossbill. A small flock spent a couple of days ravaging the emerging cones in Blue Spruce right in front of the Visitor Center, then left. Who knows where they ran off to after that. For this week we have a species that I watched (also over a couple days) coming into the area of the campground where I live to gather nesting material. Now I just see them flying around - guess they got all they needed from here. As always, good luck and great birding!

Don't forget to check out the latest edition of Loose Feathers over at A D.C. Birding Blog. As always there are some great links - down in the "Environment" section check out the article on Gristmill from NASA climate scientist James Hansen (the one whose been warning us for 20 years now . . . ).