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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-9C0A20B2-CA6D-4BFA-9EE6-88BA3F7EC475 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable An Indigo Bunting female? They are very drab.=20 Sent from my iPad > On Dec 10, 2017, at 12:52 PM, Nancy Roberts <nancy.roberts@ns.sympatico.ca= > wrote: >=20 > This bird perched in a small tree near my feeder yesterday in inner Dartmo= uth. The feeder serves mainly chickadees and may have felt too small for thi= s bird. I saw the bird from about 15 feet away, indoors. >=20 > =E2=80=A2 Size a tad larger than a fat song sparrow, and roughly the same s= hape >=20 > * Colour seemingly even warm buff all over.=20 >=20 > =E2=80=A2 Light or white eye ring >=20 > =E2=80=A2 Cardinal-like bill, scaled down to the size of this mystery bird= . Similar in colour to the body of the bird. >=20 > =E2=80=A2 Flew away to a nearby tangle of dead perennials and clematis on a= fence, not into trees, and seemed to move around within that for a bit. >=20 >=20 > The most striking thing was this bird=E2=80=99s plainness.The closest I ca= n find is female brown-headed cowbird, but the cowbird appears slimmer, thin= ner-billed, and more differentiated in plumage than my specimen. >=20 > Any ideas? >=20 > Thank you, >=20 > Nancy Roberts >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 --Apple-Mail-9C0A20B2-CA6D-4BFA-9EE6-88BA3F7EC475 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3D= utf-8"></head><body dir=3D"auto">An Indigo Bunting female? They are very dra= b. <br><br><div id=3D"AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPad</div><div><= br>On Dec 10, 2017, at 12:52 PM, Nancy Roberts <<a href=3D"mailto:nancy.r= oberts@ns.sympatico.ca">nancy.roberts@ns.sympatico.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br>= </div><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" conte= nt=3D"text/html charset=3Dutf-8">This bird perched in a small tree near my f= eeder yesterday in inner Dartmouth. The feeder serves mainly chickadees and m= ay have felt too small for this bird. I saw the bird from about 15 feet away= , indoors.<div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">=E2=80=A2 Siz= e a tad larger than a fat song sparrow, and roughly the same shape</div><div= class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">* Colour seemingly even war= m buff all over. </div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D= "">=E2=80=A2 Light or white eye ring</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></d= iv><div class=3D"">=E2=80=A2 Cardinal-like bill, scaled down to the size of t= his mystery bird. Similar in colour to the body of the bird.</div><div class= =3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">=E2=80=A2 Flew away to a nearby t= angle of dead perennials and clematis on a fence, not into trees, and seemed= to move around within that for a bit.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""><= /div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">The most striking t= hing was this bird=E2=80=99s plainness.The closest I can find is female brow= n-headed cowbird, but the cowbird appears slimmer, thinner-billed, and more d= ifferentiated in plumage than my specimen.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D= ""></div><div class=3D"">Any ideas?</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></di= v><div class=3D"">Thank you,</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div c= lass=3D"">Nancy Roberts</div><div class=3D""><div class=3D""> <div class=3D""><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=3D""></div= ><div style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: H= elvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: norma= l; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-nu= meric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: nor= mal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-= transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px= ; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><br class= =3D"Apple-interchange-newline" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: He= lvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; fon= t-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0p= x; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tex= t-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </div> <br class=3D""></div></div></blockquote></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-9C0A20B2-CA6D-4BFA-9EE6-88BA3F7EC475--
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