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Index of Subjects Hi Eleanor, My e-mail address is below. And why not send along the pictures of both species. All the best, Eric On 29 Jan 2007 at 8:22, Eleanor Lindsay wrote: > 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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