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Larry Sheldon
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 Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:01 am Post subject: Mystery bird in Eastern Nebraska |
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KindaSorta like a female Goldfinch in terms of size and shape--mostly
gray-brown with a dark bar on the wings, but wings and back aft of the
wing bars are white. |
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Leon Fisk
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| Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:30 am Post subject: Re: Mystery bird in Eastern Nebraska |
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:01:43 -0600, Larry Sheldon
<lfsheldon@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | KindaSorta like a female Goldfinch in terms of size and shape--mostly
gray-brown with a dark bar on the wings, but wings and back aft of the
wing bars are white.
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Guessing... maybe a Pine Siskin? See:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Pine_Siskin.html
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Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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Larry Sheldon
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| Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:36 am Post subject: Re: Mystery bird in Eastern Nebraska |
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Leon Fisk wrote:
| Quote: | On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:01:43 -0600, Larry Sheldon
lfsheldon@gmail.com> wrote:
KindaSorta like a female Goldfinch in terms of size and shape--mostly
gray-brown with a dark bar on the wings, but wings and back aft of the
wing bars are white.
Guessing... maybe a Pine Siskin? See:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Pine_Siskin.html
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Yeah--I'm not sure I can tell a Pine Siskin from an out-of-uniform
Goldfinch--'twas years before I realized there was two kinds involved.
But the mystery bird was white aft of the narrow wing bars. The white
was what caught my wife's eye. |
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Larry Sheldon
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| Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:50 am Post subject: Re: Mystery bird in Eastern Nebraska |
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Larry Sheldon wrote:
| Quote: | KindaSorta like a female Goldfinch in terms of size and shape--mostly
gray-brown with a dark bar on the wings, but wings and back aft of the
wing bars are white.
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I think Mystery Bird is on one of the oil seed feeders, facing
me--breast looks (in the overcast gloom of the "drier and milder") white
as well as the back and wings. |
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