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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Ally on September 12, 2020, 02:03:22 PM

Title: Humber River Trail September 12
Post by: Ally on September 12, 2020, 02:03:22 PM

Are they goldfinch fledglings?

Title: Re: Humber River Trail September 12
Post by: Ally on September 12, 2020, 02:04:43 PM

Didn't see the snails until I was processing the photos

Title: Re: Humber River Trail September 12
Post by: Ally on September 12, 2020, 02:06:53 PM

This is a happy Pewee, smiles a lot

Title: Re: Humber River Trail September 12
Post by: Shortsighted on September 12, 2020, 02:37:07 PM

You always find something the shot, don't you?
That is a rhetorical question.
This time I believe you found some juvenile House finches.
The FC has a pronounced eye-ring and buff wing bars suggesting
to me that it might be a juvenile Least FC.

Title: Re: Humber River Trail September 12
Post by: Ally on September 12, 2020, 03:40:30 PM

Quote from: "Shortsighted"

You always find something the shot, don't you?
That is a rhetorical question.
This time I believe you found some juvenile House finches.
The FC has a pronounced eye-ring and buff wing bars suggesting
to me that it might be a juvenile Least FC.

Thanks I was happy to find them. Did not expect much since I went out at lunch.

Title: Re: Humber River Trail September 12
Post by: Shortsighted on September 12, 2020, 05:07:07 PM

There is nothing around here in west Pickering today except wind.

Title: Re: Humber River Trail September 12
Post by: thouc on September 14, 2020, 10:39:52 AM

I think you have Indigo Buntings because of lighter throat colour, gray beak and chest streaking.

Agree with Least Flycatcher in the last photos.

/Thomas

Title: Re: Humber River Trail September 12
Post by: Ally on September 14, 2020, 11:09:57 AM

Quote from: "thouc"

I think you have Indigo Buntings because of lighter throat colour, gray beak and chest streaking.

Agree with Least Flycatcher in the last photos.

/Thomas

I suspected that too, but they look slightly different to the ones I took a few days earlier so I didn't go with that before. But happy to have so many buntings this year.

Title: Re: Humber River Trail September 12
Post by: Shortsighted on September 14, 2020, 12:04:05 PM

I agree with Indigo Bunting as well.
Never get to see one so I didn't even consider it.
The upper mandible is too small for House Finch and the
head is not shaped the same. There are the marks on the
wings (not present on fledgling HF) and the the streaks on
the breast do not extend all the way to the beak.
Lucky you! Seeing both adult IB and now immature and female.
For some reason IB are not keen on this vicinity. Too bad for me.
Go, go Ally!