Sunday, April 23, 2006
Käpylinnut tutkimusaseman savupiipussa - Crossbills on the chimney of Varrio research station

In late winter, as the snow is at its thickest, crossbils are looking for sand pieces that they need for their digestion. As the exposed sand sites are very few, almost anything does, as the pieces of concrete from the chimney of the research station. In the photo (down in the corners) two Parrot crossbills (males, Loxia putyopsittacus).