Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Joe on August 10, 2008, 11:25:57 PM

Title: A little help, please
Post by: Joe on August 10, 2008, 11:25:57 PM

Here are two from the Laurentians...

#1  (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3014/2751508341_4b04ee35f6.jpg)

#2  (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3236/2751507787_c158a8bc57.jpg)

And one from Humber Bay

#3  (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/2752341198_d05601dbde.jpg)

I've got some ideas, but I'd like to hear other opinions.

Thanks,
Joe

Title: Photo ID's
Post by: Anonymous on August 11, 2008, 01:43:29 PM

Hello Joe

#1 - Eastern Wood-Pewee
#2 - female Hairy Woodpecker
#3 - Rough-winged Swallows

Come on folks, no one else out there willing to help others ??

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Post by: Joe on August 11, 2008, 05:20:40 PM

Thanks, Norm.  
Regarding the Woodpecker.  We (My son and I) have seen tons of Hairy Woodpeckers, of course, but when we saw this bird we weren't thinking Hairy at all.  Granted, the photo does tend to look like a Hairy Woodpecker.  This bird was more 'scruffy' however, the black and white were not well defined.  Is it a juvenile, or we were thinking possibly female Three-toed?  Here's another photo.  The focus is pretty bad.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3259/2754024953_3d2ca75758.jpg)

Joe and Julian

Title: Woodpecker ID
Post by: Anonymous on August 11, 2008, 06:56:54 PM

Sorry about the snap ID of the Woodpecker Joe.  :roll:

You are right it is not a Hairy Woodpecker.

It is in fact a juvenile female ( this years hatch ) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Note the white wing stripe that I should have seen the first time around. This stripe is absent in all plumages of Hairy and 3-Toed Woodpeckers.

If you have access to Thayer 3.9 software you will see the very bird, well not that very bird but one in similar plumage..

You may get to see many of them as well as the adults during the up coming fall migration. Good place to see a number of them is on the Toronto Islands or in High Park to name a few places.

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Post by: Joe on August 11, 2008, 08:18:20 PM

As soon as my son saw it (we were walking around the cottage we had rented in Mont Tremblant) he excitedly said, "Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker!!"   Out of the mouths of babes...

Joe

Title: Juvenile YBS
Post by: tleeder on August 13, 2008, 09:27:35 AM

We have a pair of resident YBS up at our cottage in Tiny township and as soon as I seen the pic I knew it was a YBS juvenile after having the luck of observing mom and dad with junior day after day while on vacation up at our cottage this summer.  Also heard a pileated yesterday morning while having coffee on our cottage front deck about 25 yards away - almost spilled my coffee all over me as I jumped 3 feet high to grab the binocs.  I was able to spot it and identify as a female...