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Birding Reports => Backyard Birding => Topic started by: pearlD on May 18, 2011, 07:32:17 PM

Title: New Visitors To Our Back Yard Feeders!
Post by: pearlD on May 18, 2011, 07:32:17 PM

We think that we have Mr. & Mrs. Rose-Breasted Grosbeak. Please confirm that the female is a Rose-Breasted Grosbeak.
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/4290 ... eakmal.jpg (http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/4290/rosebreastedgrosbeakmal.jpg)
http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/4025 ... eakfem.jpg (http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/4025/rosebreastedgrosbeakfem.jpg)
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/4025 ... eakfem.jpg (http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/4025/rosebreastedgrosbeakfem.jpg)
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4290/r ... eakmal.jpg (http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4290/rosebreastedgrosbeakmal.jpg)

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Post by: mr.sharp-photo on May 18, 2011, 07:41:11 PM

its a female

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Post by: pearlD on May 18, 2011, 08:04:01 PM

thanks for the quick reply!  
Ialso had a different bird in the backyard but couldn't get a photo in time...It was a quite large brown bird with significant orange shoulder patches...I thought it was a Flicker at first, the size was comparable...any idea?
Sad to say the Baltimore Oriole did not come back after my first sighting when I didn't have the 'feeder' up but got it up the next day with orange halves and grape jelly and since then the only 'regular' visitor is a nasty squirrel who eats all the jelly.....Does anyone think the Oriole will return?