[NatureNS] Bird identification assisstance needed

Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:11:03 -0400
From: "Eric L. Mills" <e.mills@dal.ca>
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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
> >>
> >>
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