[NatureNS] Bird identification assisstance needed

Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:22:08 -0400
From: Eleanor Lindsay <az678@chebucto.ns.ca>
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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.
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> Eric
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> Quoting 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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