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Index of Subjects Hi Eleanor, Suggestion: immature male Red-winged Blackbird? Lois Codling Eleanor Lindsay wrote: > 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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