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MUCH smaller than the Grackles nesting here this spring,.. much shorter tails, sleeker bodies.
Bob McDonald <bobathome@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote: Hi Jan,
Could your black birds have been Common Grackles? You are much more likely to see large flocks of these than Rusty Blackbirds at this time of year. They do match your description.
Bob McDonald
Halifax
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From: jan foley
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:06 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] Re: pine grosbeak and rusty blackbirds
Amidst the purple finches eating the fruit of our mountain ash trees these last three days was a single female pine grosbeak.
As well a flock of 25-30 of what must've been rusty blackbirds have been passing over...evenings to the swamp east northeast of my house and mornings they head to the point and marsh to the west southwest of my house. I wasn't sure what they were as they were flying high and only briefly past on the other three occasions,...but at about 7am today they touched down for 5-10 minutes to check on the birdseed scattered for the mourning doves and sparrows then flew off on their usual course.
The group was predominantly black with blue irridescent heads there were 7 or eight with duller brown plummage. All about 8" long....paler yellow (???) iris...?...can anyone confirm my I.D.?
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MUCH smaller than the Grackles nesting here this spring,.. much shorter tails, sleeker bodies.<br><br><b><i>Bob McDonald <bobathome@hfx.eastlink.ca></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div><font size="2">Hi Jan,</font></div> <div><font size="2"></font> </div> <div><font size="2">Could your black birds have been Common Grackles? You are much more likely to see large flocks of these than Rusty Blackbirds at this time of year. They do match your description.</font></div> <div><font size="2"></font> </div> <div><font size="2">Bob McDonald</font></div> <div><font size="2">Halifax</font></div> <div><font size="2"></font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px;
padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="background: rgb(228, 228, 228) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>From:</b> jan foley </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a title="naturens@chebucto.ns.ca"
href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 25, 2006 1:06 PM</div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> [NatureNS] Re: pine grosbeak and rusty blackbirds</div> <div><br></div> <table id="HB_Mail_Container" unselectable="on" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr unselectable="on" width="100%" height="100%"> <td id="HB_Focus_Element" unselectable="off" background="" height="250" valign="top" width="100%"> <div> Amidst the purple finches eating the fruit of our mountain
ash trees these last three days was a single female pine grosbeak.</div> <div> As well a flock of 25-30 of what must've been rusty blackbirds have been passing over...evenings to the swamp east northeast of my house and mornings they head to the point and marsh to the west southwest of my house. I wasn't sure what they were as they were flying high and only briefly past on the other three occasions,...but at about 7am today they touched down for 5-10 minutes to check on the birdseed scattered for the mourning doves and sparrows then flew off on their usual course. </div> <div> The group was predominantly black with blue irridescent heads there were 7 or eight with duller brown plummage. All about 8" long....paler yellow (???) iris...?...can anyone confirm my
I.D.?</div></td></tr> <tr unselectable="on" hb_tag="1"> <td style="font-size: 1pt;" unselectable="on" height="1"> <div id="hotbar_promo"></div><br></td></tr></tbody></table> <blockquote id="3bc403a2"><br> </blockquote><br><br> <div> </div><hr size="1"> Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail <div> </div><hr> <div></div>No virus found in this incoming message.<br>Checked by AVG Free Edition.<br>Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006<br></blockquote></blockquote><br><p> 
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