Learn About Crossbills

Bird Feeder

This is an excellent article about crossbills:

The crossbills have bills or mandibles crossing at their tips, hence the name crossbills. 

Summit Outside: The unique beak of the crossbill

Migration Of The Songbirds

Your Bird Feeder

Excellent article about the migration of many songbirds.

Several times in the past month, I have stood in one place and counted black-capped chickadees passing. This morning (Oct. 26), in about an hour, my husband and I counted 285. All of these birds were moving from west to east along the Lake Ontario shore cliff west of Port Hope.

We're experiencing an irruption