Hi Paul Had to laugh at your comments on finding your Crossbills. I too have had the same experience up here in NW CT with Crossbills...... My first WW Crossbills this year in W Hartland were found while looking at a chickadee flying up into a spruce tree. At the top where the chick landed was a Crossbill feeding with 3 others on a branch, not calling nor moving. Would have missed them completely if not following the chick to the tree top. The second sighting was in a new found spruce grove in Torrington. I got out of the car, scanned the trees with nocks and there, mid way up were WW Crossbills feeding quietly among the cones. Again, would not have been found cept by stopping and scanning. I now stop, get out and check all my spruce, hemlock and fir groves I know up here and not just drive by while looking for movement. Successful birding is a skill we all keep learning along the way...... Paul Carrier