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Index of Subjects On 11/3/2010 9:38 AM, Marg Millard wrote: > 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. * that would be a Rubycrown Kinglet, omnipresent mystery Bird of the Great White North. fred schueler ------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm now in the field on the Thirty Years Later Expedition - http://fragileinheritance.org/projects/thirty/thirtyintro.htm Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------
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