Red Crossbills and Red breasted Nuthatches this morning (plus others)

Red Crossbill Type 10, Quabbin Gate 8, Pelham, MA, Aug 25, 2022

Red Crossbill Type 10, Quabbin Gate 8, Pelham, MA, Aug 25, 2022

Red Crossbill Type 10, Quabbin Gate 8, Pelham, MA, Aug 25, 2022

Red breasted Nuthatch, Reed Conservation Area, Belchertown, MA, Aug 25, 2022

Red eyed Vireo, Reed Conservation Area, Belchertown, MA, Aug 25, 2022

Magnolia Warbler, Reed Conservation Area, Belchertown, MA, Aug 25, 2022

Black throated Blue Warbler, Cadwell Memorial Forest, Pelham, MA, Aug 25, 2022

River Otter, Rail trail, Amherst, MA, Aug 25, 2022

In have out every morning for the last few days with my main focus being warblers (more on the warblers at the following link).  I have also continued to follow up on the ongoing influx of Red Crossbills and Red breasted Nuthatches into the area.  I saw some very interesting behavior this morning with a Red Crossbill at Quabbin Gate 8.  I heard multiple individuals flying over and eventually one came down and ended up in an oak tree where it started feeding on acorns!  I have never seen this behavior with this species before and I managed to capture a crappy video of the behavior and the link to the video is attached here:  Red Crossbill video.  Red breasted Nuthatches continue to show very well throughout the area with double digit counts at multiple locations.  Besides the crossbills and nuthatches there were many other birds around to be seen this morning as well as some mammals.