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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: JimmyM on December 10, 2009, 03:16:40 PM

Title: Mockingbird
Post by: JimmyM on December 10, 2009, 03:16:40 PM

The mockingbird stayed for 2 days in my backyard last week, munching on tree berries

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37848947@N06/4175040076/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37848947@N06/4175040076/)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37848947@N06/4175038026/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37848947@N06/4175038026/)

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Post by: Bird Brain on December 10, 2009, 03:55:19 PM

Jim ... nice visitor and photos.

Jo-Anne  :)

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Post by: JimmyM on December 11, 2009, 08:03:13 AM

Thanks Jo-Anne .
The next time you go to Niagara, watch for hawks perched in trees or on lamp standards along the QEW starting just before the Burlington bridge and right through to the Falls . Saw ( as pointed out by Lyla ) 13 and some of them quite close to the highway . Most were red tails although from their silouettes 2 sightings might have been owls.
Jim

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Post by: Robin Harrison on December 11, 2009, 06:43:26 PM

Hi JimmyM,can you tell what the black & yellow bird is in your gallery ?
                Thanks
                                 Robin

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Post by: JimmyM on December 11, 2009, 10:17:04 PM

Hi Robin - welcome to the birding forum .
The bird is a yellow-headed blackbird, not seen too often around our area . It is mostly a mid-west bird . The one I photoed this past spring came into my backyard with a flock of about 20 red-winged blackbirds and probably had migrated with them . It stayed for a couple hours, then flew off with the flock when they had cleaned out my feeders. It was pretty exciting having it around even for a short time.
Thanks,
Jim

Title: Mockingbird
Post by: Ann Brokelman on December 11, 2009, 10:20:12 PM

Very nice shot of the mockingbird.  Ann