several more Parrot Crossbills

for people with a loxia aversion time to look away -- spent the day with the 14 Parrots at Budby Common Notts getting to know the species again, something you cannot do in a 10 minute visit -- I must have walked past several feeding flocks in Lincs forests this winter given the totally unobtrusive nature of these beasts when settled feeding in a Scots Pine