This morning I took a walk through Mink Brook Nature Preserve in Hanover. The definite highlight was three Red Crossbills, my first ever, frequenting the tops of cone-laden white pines along the Wheelock Trail. A few minutes later, I saw another Red Crossbill along the River Trail, just across Route 10 from the Preserve.

Other highlights included a kingfisher, four Fox Sparrows, and a flicker. A few Mallards and Hooded Mergansers were in Mink Brook, which still is mostly frozen over. As viewed from the River Trail, the Connecticut River remains almost completely ice-covered as well.

Another highlight, of course, was the three inches of fresh snow! But several phoebes here would have disagreed about this, I think—they looked pretty dejected.

Adam Burnett
Dartmouth College
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