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["Tommy Curtis" <tcbirdwatch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Since we've seen three unusual birds in our yard the past two months but have 
been unable to get photos for confirmation, we hesitate to name a bird we have 
seen twice this week.  Let me describe it and ask your help. 
Wednesday morning we had several warblers, tanagers, and orchard orioles in the 
yard.  One bird flew to the telephone line near our deck and we had good looks 
at it.  It was the size, shape, and color of a female Scarlet Tanager but had 
several distinctive differences.  The bill was orangish on the lower half, it 
had two wing bars, the stomach was white with the greenish-yellow Scarlet 
Tanager colors on the upper throat and under the tail, and the back above the 
wings was a medium gray.  We saw the bird again on Thursday morning as it came 
to the same telephone line and stopped before going down the hillside to eat on 
what folks around here call Poke Berries.  While it was feeding we had several 
quick looks at it but because of the angle of the hill could not digiscope and 
it was too far away for the zoom on our camera to focus.  It was rainy here 
this morning and it did not appear even though we watched for over two hours.  

We're convinced Sibley has a picture of the bird we saw but wonder from the 
description what you would call it. 

Tommy & Virginia Curtis
Smithville, TN
DeKalb County
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