I thought I was photographing some pine siskins, but something was off. Later this a.m. after downloading the photos, I realized these were cross-bills of some sort (see first photo in link below). This led me to discover that there’s such a thing as a white-winged crossbill. I included another photo sho you can see the side/top plumage. This appears to be a white-winged female. 

I’m not 100 percent sure on the ID, as usual, so I thought I’d throw this out there. The pictures suffer from being cropped to death, as well as having been taken by a warm camera just brought out into -3 degree air, but I think the basics are their for ID purposes for someone better at it than I am. 

-Tig Tillinghast

PS: These were taken behind the offices of Northern Woodlands in Lyme, NH, where there is a pretty cool wetland complex. These birds were trading between white pines, feeding in the cones at the very top for about 30 seconds per tree before moving along.

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