[NatureNS] Bird identification assisstance needed

Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:12:57 -0400
From: Eleanor Lindsay <az678@chebucto.ns.ca>
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Hello everyone,
I have had a bird at my feeding site over the last few days that I have 
never seen before and since it was around on one of my Project 
Feederwatch count days I would dearly love to be able to identify it.
It is similar in size and shape to, possibly a little bit smaller than, 
the three young grackles I have had around all winter (the same 
'dark-eyed blackbirds' that Roland, Bernard, Ian Eric and I all 
communicated about last November - whose eyes have indeed now gone 
white- and I have never had grackles stay around this late before - but 
that is another matter..!). This bird in question is a dark, somewhat 
mottled brown colour, with parts of its rump and sides almost having a 
speckled appearance like a winter starling. It has a cream eyebrow 
stripe and two conspicuous cream wing bars, with a marked orange tone 
along the upper edge of the upper bar, which is  much larger than the 
lower one. Its tail is long and the end of it flat, or slightly rounded. 
It feeds on the ground either alone or in the company of the grackles 
and bluejays.
Does this ring a bell with anyone?
I have a few photos, which due to light and distance are not the 
greatest, but I'd be happy to forward them to anyone interested.Eleanor 
Lindsay
Seabright, St Margarets Bay

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