Two-barred Crossbills

continuing the December loxia theme headed back to the Two-barred Crossbills in S Yorks, first seen in October 2013; in some situations simply impossible to get a correctly exposed image with the birds in deep shade but the white sky behind; at other times high overhead and always seemingly in shade in spite of sun shining around and about -- very very difficult to get anything on these so a lot of low quality images but a very rare species so I like to have records --
all images Canon 5D3, Canon 500f4 II and Canon 2x III all hand held at 2000ISO