[NatureNS] puzzling tiny bird in White Point

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:46:42 -0400
From: "Frederick W. Schueler" <bckcdb@istar.ca>
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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
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