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Index of Subjects Hi Marg, Send my a picture or two and I'll see what I can make of it. All the best, Eric On 20 Dec 2012 at 16:16, Marg Millard wrote: > This afternoon as we were doing our solstice wreaths when a bird flew into > the tree along the driveway and called and called. A different sound from > the normal busy calls about this fall. sound like an extended cheep that > didn't change in tone or length of call. Evenly spaced, a pause between each > call. It came down to the feeder cautiously but once on the ground under the > grapevine it let us move around and paid us no heed until the camera came > out. I would say a hungry bird. > We did get a few poor shots of it. The wing pattern is quite strange; a > sideways chevron and then a patch of white on each wing more than a bar of > white...very interesting. and the lower back is patterned with a double > cross for want of a better description. A smallish bird looks a bit bigger > than a Goldfinch has an olive-greenish cast to it and the beak has a bit of > an over hang. > The pattern on the wing I haven't ever seen. Closest we could come to it > searching page by page would be a lark bunting but not even that close. > The bird has been coming and going. We'll try again to get photos but if you > want what I have so far email me back, please. > Best regards, Marg Millard, White Point > > > Eric L. Mills 286 Kingsburg Road, RR#1, Rose Bay, NS B0J 2X) Canada e.mills@dal.ca
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