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Index of Subjects Eric, I'd would appreciate your looking at a picture for me, but need your E-mail address as I don't have a means of posting it here; I did wonder about a redwing, but see them so infrequently in my area and the discrepancy between what I was seeing and the illustrations I have for an immature seemed a bit too far apart. Also, how common is it to have just one lone redwing? Eleanor Eric Mills wrote: > I agree with Lois and Murray - first-winter male Red-winged Blackbird. > But please do send along a photograph. > > Eric > > Quoting Eleanor Lindsay <az678@chebucto.ns.ca>: > >> 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 >> >> > > > > ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ > Dr Eric L Mills > Professor Emeritus of History of Science > Dept of Oceanography, Dalhousie University > Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada > ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ > > >
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