FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Futile Search for Cowbird

["Tommy Curtis" <tcbirdwatch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

After an hour of looking around the fields and yards on the west side of 
Smithville, we could not locate the flock of Rusty Blackbirds and Brown-headed 
Cowbirds we had seen in our yard.  We did find a larger group of over 200 
Rustys but there were no cowbirds with them, only about 50 European Starlings.  
We followed this bunch until they began to feed in a garden plot and I scoped 
them in vain.  We did find probably 30 Meadowlarks, lots of Robins, several 
Starling flocks, and 2 Eurasian Collared Doves in addition to the usual 
Red-tailed Hawks and American Kestrels.  
The cowbird in our backyard had the chest and side markings of the immature 
Shiny, which was what caught my eye as I looked through the group, but I did 
not get a look at the eye.  I know the likelihood it was a Shiny is miniscule 
but it would be great to have another look.  

Tommy & Virginia Curtis
Smithville, TN
DeKalb County
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