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Hi; My son and I checked out Seaview Park today - and found the Bell's Vireo! The bird was with a small flock of Chickadees in the conifers next to the road,(just inside the fence), about 100 meters from the main parking lot. I got great looks at it. A rather drab little bird with a grey head, faint white spectacles, an olive back - I couldn't see a demarcation line separating the grey head and olive back; it just sort of blended in, with the grey extending down the back past the neck. It had almost no wing bars - just faint white lines. It had a pale yellow wash over the breast and flanks - more yellow than is shown in the Peterson field guide. I got back in my car and drove a short ways up the road and parked (probably illegally) on the side of the road and watched the bird from the far side of the car. To my surprise, there were two birds. I got excited thinking there were two Vireos; but on closer inspection, the second bird was brownish on the head and back, had a brighter white eye-ring - no spectacles, more obvious wingbars, and no yellow at all on the breast or flanks - just a dirty white - a Ruby-crowned Kinglet! The Vireo kept driving him off every time he came too close to where the Bell's Vireo was feeding. Directions: From the North end of Barrington Street, turn onto the Seaview Park road, which forks off Barrington just before the A.Murry MacKay Bridge. If you're driving south on Barrington from Bedford/Clayton Park , this would be a very sharp left turn. Park in the main parking lot. Be warned - this is an off-leash park and there are lots of free running dogs. There are a few trees on either side of this landscaped park - one row by the water and one by the road - just grass in the middle. I saw the bird in the conifers by the road. There was one birch tree and a row of shrubs in front of the conifers. Good luck! Suzanne __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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