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Birding Reports => Backyard Birding => Topic started by: Napper on August 16, 2023, 04:17:39 PM

Title: Tiny Township, Rose Breasted or House finch
Post by: Napper on August 16, 2023, 04:17:39 PM

Quick update. There were two Hummingbirds chasing each other around this afternoon and my camera was in the house. Had a surprise visitor this afternoon, I've seen them up here before usually a few roads  back away from the beach and at my old feeder 14 years ago. I am struggling with the colour of the beak. If is a house Finch it is another first because there are none here that I have ever seen, unlike Milton.
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Title: Re: Tiny Township, Rose Breasted or House finch
Post by: Shortsighted on August 16, 2023, 07:09:34 PM

Very interesting! Too small for a grosbeak and about the right size for a finch. I'm also thinking fledgling E. Towhee. They can be quite small and dark, almost Gothic. I don't really know what it is but it may portent calamity. So, watch it!