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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Napper on August 17, 2008, 02:59:16 PM

Title: Couple of RFI's
Post by: Napper on August 17, 2008, 02:59:16 PM
Back in Tiny

spotted first one today at third Street Balm beach.. is it a Tanager? (yellowish beak, stripe on wing)
spotted second one last week near the same spot.. Flycatcher but which one?

Thanx in advance:))  Beautiful weekend

spotted a Pileated last week in the tree above our place

(http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/albums/Tiny-Township/DSC_3456_1_001.sized.jpg)

(http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/albums/Tiny-Township/DSC_3358_1.sized.jpg)
Title: ID
Post by: Anonymous on August 17, 2008, 07:46:38 PM
Looks like a Scarlet Tanager male in fall coulors and the Flycatcher looks like a Eastern Wood-Pewee but hard to tell at that angle.

Note the almost total lack of eye ring in the photo.

A side view would be better.
Title: Thankyou
Post by: Napper on August 18, 2008, 01:17:54 AM
yah!! I thought the Flycatcher was  a stretch...the image was  really washed out, too bad.. No time and it was gone..

Thankyou Mr. Murr

 Tanager Huh..  wow..

More listers here in three weeks  than at home in a couple of years


;)) Napper