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["Bob Reilly" <rjreilly@xxxxxxx>]

Irene,

Absence of breast spotting and pronounced eye ring point to a veery, and 
they are coming through at the moment.  They will often have brownish malar 
stripe..  Don't know about the "crescent moon marking-possible partial eye 
ring?"  Gray-cheeked would typically have distinct breast spotting.

Bob


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "IE Ries" <featherchaser@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RAS" <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:35 PM
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Who am I?


>  I am in the Thrush family, and appear to be fully grown.  Irene Ries saw 
> me yesterday at Pocahontas State Park, and rifled through her guide for a 
> full 30 minutes, trying to figure out which species I am.  I have a pale 
> breast with nearly no spotting, but I do have the two characteristic 
> stripes just under my beak on each side, running vertically.  My chest is 
> pale gray to white, actually, and I have yellow feet.  I have no specles 
> nor eyering, but a dark gray-brown "crescent moon" marking under my eye. 
> I wouldn't sing for Irene, so she didn't hear my voice.
>  Who am I?
>
>
>  The other 44 species of birds seen yesterday at Pocahontas State Park 
> around Beaver Lake and the Forest Exploration Trail:
>
>  Eastern Bluebird
>  White-Eyed Vireo
>  Lousiana Waterthrush
>  Wood Thrush
>  Killdeer
>  Spotted Sanpiper
>  Red-bellied Woodpecker
>  Northern Cardinal
>  Belted Kinfisher
>  Redtailed Hawk
>  Canada Goose
>  Tree Swallow
>  Mallard Duck
>  American Crow
>  Carolina Chickadee
>  Northern Flicker
>  Redwinged Blackbird
>  Mourning Dove
>  Prairie Warbler
>  Yellow-Throated Warbler
>  Prothonotary Warbler
>  Summer Tanager (2 males chasing each other)
>  Butterbutt
>  Eastern Kingbird (pair chasing each other around)
>  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
>  Eastern Phoebe (hawking insects with the Butterbutt's help)
>  Scarlet Tanager
>  Eastern Wood Pewee
>  Ruby-throated Hummingbird
>  Great Blue Heron
>  Song Sparrow
>  Common Grackle
>  Yellow-throated Vireo
>  Red-eyed Vireo
>  Chipping Sparrow
>  White-breasted Nuthatch
>  American Goldfinch
>  Carolina Wren
>  Pine Warbler
>  Pileated Woodpecker
>  Downy Woodpecker
>  Wild Turkey (3 hens)
>  Ovenbird
>  Hermit Thrush
>
>
>  Irene in Southside
>
>
>
>
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