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--Apple-Mail-193--94350327 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi everyone: I was out atlassing in the Vaughan area on Thursday. I went into the woods by a small stream (and left the camera in the my car, when will I learn!). While in there confirming a least flycatcher I had a yellow-bellied sapsucker land on a tree about a metre from me and spend the next three minutes calmly checking over that tree, and a few that were just as close. If then flew off. I ran back to the car, got camera and went back but it was gone. On the way back out, I heard a bird that I thought was a black-throated green warbler, but it was not quite right... What warbler is white underneath, with a patch of yellow on each flank, and has a broad, white wingbar? Well, when it is moving its almost impossible to tell, and the Peterson was no help.... but I got enough pictures, and on a hunch looked at the Peterson again. It was a male redstart, that still had some work to do on its plumage. It looked like a female. If you look at the pictures, you will see that in the top two, that really is the same bird! The camera must have caught the when he light hit the patch just right. (I offset he pictures so you can see that it was running across the branch from left to right. http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/Redstart.jpg Shortly after that I was watching a small flock of tree swallows. They were all gliding around looking for something to eat, but I noticed twice that a brown one kept landing by the side of the road. I went over to where it had been and stood still and it came back again. It perched on the power lines first and was pure white underneath, so it was an "immature" tree swallow but it was gathering nesting material. I stayed there for five minutes and it came back every 15 seconds, grabbed another bit, flew off behind a nearby house then came right back. http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/TreeSwallow.jpg Pat PS: I did the BNS Cape Split hike today (combined with atlassing, of course) and saw redstarts and black-throated greens everywhere. I think I can tell them apart most of the time now! ======================================================================== == Patrick Kelly Director of Computer Facilities ======================================================================== == Faculty of Architecture and Planning Dalhousie University ======================================================================== == PO Box 1000 Stn Central 5410 Spring Garden Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Canada Canada ======================================================================== == Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca ======================================================================== == --Apple-Mail-193--94350327 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=US-ASCII Hi everyone: I was out atlassing in the Vaughan area on Thursday. I went into the woods by a small stream (and left the camera in the my car, when will I learn!). While in there confirming a <bold>least flycatcher</bold> I had a <bold>yellow-bellied sapsucker</bold> land on a tree about a metre from me and spend the next three minutes calmly checking over that tree, and a few that were just as close. If then flew off. I ran back to the car, got camera and went back but it was gone. On the way back out, I heard a bird that I thought was a black-throated green warbler, but it was not quite right... What warbler is white underneath, with a patch of yellow on each flank, and has a broad, white wingbar? Well, when it is moving its almost impossible to tell, and the Peterson was no help.... but I got enough pictures, and on a hunch looked at the Peterson again. It was a <bold>male</bold> <bold>redstart</bold>, that still had some work to do on its plumage. It looked like a female. If you look at the pictures, you will see that in the top two, that really is the same bird! The camera must have caught the when he light hit the patch just right. (I offset he pictures so you can see that it was running across the branch from left to right. http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/Redstart.jpg Shortly after that I was watching a small flock of tree swallows. They were all gliding around looking for something to eat, but I noticed twice that a brown one kept landing by the side of the road. I went over to where it had been and stood still and it came back again. It perched on the power lines first and was pure white underneath, so it was an "immature" <bold>tree swallow</bold> but it was gathering nesting material. I stayed there for five minutes and it came back every 15 seconds, grabbed another bit, flew off behind a nearby house then came right back. http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/TreeSwallow.jpg Pat PS: I did the BNS Cape Split hike today (combined with atlassing, of course) and saw redstarts and black-throated greens everywhere. I think I can tell them apart most of the time now! <fontfamily><param>Courier</param> ========================================================================== Patrick Kelly Director of Computer Facilities ========================================================================== Faculty of Architecture and Planning Dalhousie University ========================================================================== PO Box 1000 Stn Central 5410 Spring Garden Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Canada Canada ========================================================================== Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca ========================================================================== </fontfamily> --Apple-Mail-193--94350327--
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