A lifer for me, a family of crossbills arrived at my feeder for a very short stay. The male and female each posed for me but the youngster was too busy trying to make its way from the feeder roof down to the seed.
A semi rare visitor. Have only ever seen them a handful of times. He really showed up in the sunlight. Unfortunately his stay was under a minute, and I never did get a good shot of him. This is the best one, ttw at full zoom, and cropped.
This one in breeding plumage,
interesting to see that this one's bill is crossed the opposite way to the one I posted yesterday
Wikipedia says "The mechanism by which the bill-crossing (which usually, but not always, occurs in a 1:1 frequency of left-crossing or right-crossing morphs) is...
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