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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keith Dickinson" data-source="post: 1743679" data-attributes="member: 10828">If you can get out to the Wykeham raptor view point near Scarborough crossbills are pretty much nailed on. Elsewhere, bearing in mind that they have to drink fairly often, stake out pools in likely areas and you've a good chance of them coming down to drink. This happened for a group of us in the Stang a couple of years ago, the  birds were literally just above us dropping into a small beck drinking. At one point my friend had to step backwards to enable the camera to focus on the birds they were that close.</blockquote>