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Need help, please, to ID two new visitors to back yard
Apr 14, 2014 21:14:18 #
The first one looks like a red winged blackbird, but I'm confused by the spots. Could it be a juvenile? It's a little early in the season, I think, for juveniles this large.
The second one is a little smaller, about the size of a titmouse. I really don't know what it is.
Canon SX 50 heavily cropped
The second one is a little smaller, about the size of a titmouse. I really don't know what it is.
Canon SX 50 heavily cropped
Apr 14, 2014 21:21:39 #
Apr 14, 2014 21:28:20 #
irene wrote:
First is redwing blackbird and second is female towhee.
Thank you, irene! You've helped me narrow my search in the bird book from 900 pages to just a few. I've looked up the towhee, we've had males here before, but this is the first female. What about the speckles on the blackbird? We've had many solidly black red winged blackbirds, and some brown specked females.
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Apr 14, 2014 21:29:15 #
Apr 14, 2014 21:31:47 #
The Red-Winged Blackbird looks like a young female just coming into her prime or it could just be a morph.... ;)
Apr 15, 2014 00:03:30 #
Apr 15, 2014 08:37:08 #
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Apr 15, 2014 10:58:58 #
To be specific, the second bird is a female Eastern Towhee. The Rufous-sided Towhee was split into Eastern Towhee and Spotted Towhee.
Apr 15, 2014 11:26:23 #
rob7789 wrote:
To be specific, the second bird is a female Eastern Towhee. The Rufous-sided Towhee was split into Eastern Towhee and Spotted Towhee.
Thank you all for your replies...and not that the Rufous-sided Towhee was split into the Eastern Towhee and the Spotted Tohwee is of great concern to me...you, rob7789 are my go-to bird guy from now on...lol
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