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Index of Subjects As a non-birder, never seen a yellow-breasted chat before, but today in the snow had one alternating with a few juncos and a rampant squirrel on a hanging feeder, eating seeds (nyger, hulled sunflower, black-oil sf and cracked corn available). Was seemingly healthy, but hard to photo clearly through the screen of snowflakes. Are seeds what they normally eat/prefer? Upper bill black but lower bill whitish so likely a first year female, according to the illustration in Sibley (though he doesn't illustrate a first year male, so maybe they have white lower bills too?). Shouldn't yellow-breasted chats all be down in Central America by now? -- looking outside, I think that's where I'd prefer to be as well. A flicker was visited one of the hanging suet+peanut butter logs earlier today -- it does this only very occasionally here, while downy w-ps are regulars. Steve Halifax
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