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Index of Subjects I think it is a gnat catcher. You are very lucky to have it in your yard! Cheers, liz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marg Millard" <mmillard@eastlink.ca> To: "naturens" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 10:38 AM Subject: [NatureNS] puzzling tiny bird in White Point I have a puzzle I could use some help with if someone has suggestions to share. I haven't been able to get a photo but will continue with that. At first I thought I had another hummingbird, a big one. It was hovering at the honeysuckle hummingbird station where the ant trap is still hanging. I got excited. But no, it is not a hummingbird...the bird is about the same shade of olivey gray as a female Junco, it is about 1/3 less or more of the size of a chickadee. It flits, top side up and down and sideways, under and over things, always moving. It holds its tail up almost perpendicular to its backside, slightly to the right and flicks it. The flick seems to affect the whole body and movement of the bird. Busy thing.!! It is buffy to gray under and I got the impression of a through the eye stripe but it wasn't really distinct. It has a thin beak not quite the same as a nuthatch but similar. Maybe not so curved. The white breasted nuthatch and a chickadee arrived at the grapevine and were on either side of it for a brief moment.. Size-wise it is most definitely less than 1/2 size of that nuthatch. Chickadee chased the little bird off the feeder where it seemed more to be interested in exploring than actually feeding. Maybe the seed I had out wasn't to its liking. It did seem to find something in the leaves of the grapevine to pay attention to. That tail may have a very faint pattern on it but it didn't stay still long enough for me to say. It is one of the smallest birds I have seen, and I can say with some certainty I haven't seen this before. Ideas anyone? Best regards, Marg Millard, White Point ,Queens http://MargMillard.ca
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