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Hi Wayne and all,
It would be great if the bird depicted in photo http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights7.html was a Least Flycatcher, but alas I've not encountered any in Lewis Lake PP in 6 years of birding here, indeed I don't have any breeding evidence for this species in this MBBA square anywhere, although I have lots more habitat to investigate in future years.
The bird depicted in photo http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights12.html is another story. Kinglets often travel with warblers but they are usually easy to separate from the warblers due to their smaller(birdlet) size and wing flitting habit as they flit from branch to branch. The subject bird was warbler sized and did not flit its wings. Other potential candidates might be first year female Pine Warbler or Bay-breasted Warbler. A great field guide for warblers is Stokes' Field Guide to Warblers by Donald and William Stokes. On page 162 of this book is a superb photo of a first year female Cape May Warbler.
Bird identification is not an exact business and it seems I am always one photo short of a complete diagnosis.
Thanks to all for help in ID-ing the smartweed.
Hans
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From: Wayne P. Neily
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 1:09 AM
Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Fall Warblers and Other Good Stuff
Hello Hans et al.,
Enjoyed your photos, as usual. getting exposed to all these good shots of immature birds, odd plants, and invertebrates helps us all sharpen our identification skills.
Your possible Cape May juvenile, looks to me like a Ruby-crowned Kinglet; the others all look good; the imm. Chestnut-sided this time is a typical one, but the Aug. 17 picture labeled as such looks more like a young Least Flycatcher. It is interesting how different the Magnolias look and how much more difficult they are to identify when you cannot see the whole bird. Were they all of the same one? And the Purple Finch really has a purple bill! The mystery plant is a Polygonum, perhaps punctatum, but I'll leave the species to the botanists - there are about 26 in N. S. according to Zinck.
Keep them coming!
Wayne Neily
Tremont, Nova Scotia
"Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we." - Michel de Montaigne, 1580.
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Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
To: "Naturens@Chebucto.Ns.Ca" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Subject: [NatureNS] Fall Warblers and Other Good Stuff
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:54:51 -0300
A couple of years ago I met a chap on the trail at Rondeau PP, ON, in May while we were both enjoying the spectacle of spring warblers, mostly very easy to identify by sight or sound. The conversation eventually turned to my home and he then queried the best time for birding in Nova Scotia to which I replied Sept to Nov. I watched his jaw drop in disappointment as he uttered, "fall warblers!!!". This phrase is well used and valid as fall warblers can be very difficult to sort out even with photographs on hand. Freshly fledged fall warblers are even harder to ID and its all made just that much more difficult because the clues usually afforded by local habitat and local breeders becomes irrelevant. I've posted a bunch of photos of fall warblers that moved through Portuguese Cove this afternoon, all juveniles.
A case to demonstrate my point is the first photograph. Is this a Cape May Warbler, or something else? I can't decide. The sharp black bill, greenish rump, greenish edges to flight feathers and pale edged greater coverts all favours the Cape May Warbler, but?? If you check the internet photo library you'll notice that almost all examples are of the easy to ID adult Cape May Warbler not my subject juvenile. I have other photos of recently fledged birds that are so confusing that they are likely not identifiable.
The last photo in this series of birds and plants is a plant that we cannot identify. Its common enough and favours marsh edges.
Hans
http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights12.html
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Provincial Coordinator
Nova Scotia's Migration Count
e-mail: htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca
NSMC website: http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html
Nature website: http://hanstoom.com
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Wayne and all,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It would be great if the bird depicted in photo <A
href="http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights7.html">http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights7.html</A> was
a Least Flycatcher, but alas I've not encountered any in Lewis Lake PP in 6
years of birding here, indeed I don't have any breeding evidence for this
species in this MBBA square anywhere, although I have lots more habitat to
investigate in future years.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The bird depicted in photo <A
href="http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights12.html">http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights12.html</A> is
another story. Kinglets often travel with warblers but they are usually
easy to separate from the warblers due to their smaller(birdlet) size and wing
flitting habit as they flit from branch to branch. The subject bird was
warbler sized and did not flit its wings. Other potential candidates might
be first year female Pine Warbler or Bay-breasted Warbler. A great
field guide for warblers is Stokes' Field Guide to Warblers by Donald and
William Stokes. On page 162 of this book is a superb photo of a first year
female Cape May Warbler.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bird identification is not an exact business and it
seems I am always one photo short of a complete diagnosis.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks to all for help in ID-ing the
smartweed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hans</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
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<A title=neilyornis@hotmail.com href="mailto:neilyornis@hotmail.com">Wayne P.
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 21, 2006 1:09
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [NatureNS] Fall Warblers and
Other Good Stuff</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>
<P>Hello Hans et al., </P>
<P> Enjoyed your photos, as usual. getting exposed to all
these good shots of immature birds, odd plants, and invertebrates helps us all
sharpen our identification skills. </P>
<P> Your possible Cape May juvenile, looks to me like a Ruby-crowned
Kinglet; the others all look good; the imm. Chestnut-sided this time is a
typical one, but the Aug. 17 picture labeled as such looks more like a young
Least Flycatcher. It is interesting how different the Magnolias look and
how much more difficult they are to identify when you cannot see the whole
bird. Were they all of the same one? And the Purple Finch really
has a purple bill! The mystery plant is a<EM> Polygonum</EM>, perhaps
<EM>punctatum</EM>, but I'll leave the species to the botanists - there
are about 26 in N. S. according to Zinck.<BR><BR>Keep them coming!</P>
<DIV>Wayne Neily <BR>Tremont, Nova Scotia <BR><BR><BR>"Let us a little permit
Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we." -
Michel de Montaigne, 1580. <BR><BR><FONT
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A couple of years ago I met a chap on the trail
at Rondeau PP, ON, in May while we were both enjoying the spectacle of
spring warblers, mostly very easy to identify by sight or sound. The
conversation eventually turned to my home and he then queried the best time
for birding in Nova Scotia to which I replied Sept to Nov. I watched
his jaw drop in disappointment as he uttered, "fall warblers!!!". This
phrase is well used and valid as fall warblers can be very difficult to sort
out even with photographs on hand. Freshly fledged fall warblers are
even harder to ID and its all made just that much more difficult
because the clues usually afforded by local habitat and local breeders
becomes irrelevant. I've posted a bunch of photos of fall warblers
that moved through Portuguese Cove this afternoon, all
juveniles.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A case to demonstrate my point is the first
photograph. Is this a Cape May Warbler, or something else?
I can't decide. The sharp black bill, greenish rump, greenish edges to
flight feathers and pale edged greater coverts all favours the Cape May
Warbler, but?? If you check the internet photo library you'll notice
that almost all examples are of the easy to ID adult Cape May Warbler not my
subject juvenile. I have other photos of recently fledged birds that
are so confusing that they are likely not identifiable.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The last photo in this series of birds and
plants is a plant that we cannot identify. Its common enough and
favours marsh edges.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hans</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
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Toom<BR>Provincial Coordinator<BR>Nova Scotia's Migration Count<BR>e-mail:
htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca<BR>NSMC
website: <A
href="http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html">http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html</A><BR>Nature
website: <A
href="http://hanstoom.com/">http://hanstoom.com</A><BR>___________________________________________________</FONT></DIV><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR
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