I took this photo in Florida last week just for this occasion:-)
Loggerhead, not northern, but the comparison still works. So much easier to
differentiate when they pose side by side!
Greg Walker
Louisville
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On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 5:42 PM Joyce Bender <landstewardky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I hear what you are saying, Mike. When we visited this past Monday, a
man was there telling us he was on the shrike. He was leaving as he
pointed out the bird. It was the mocker and it was guarding a shrub covered
with Asian bittersweet. We kept looking and did find the shrike. We saw
the mask, hooked bill and buff-colored breast. Additionally, the way it
was sitting made it clear it wasn’t the mockingbird.
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On Dec 5, 2021, at 2:50 PM, mikesindahouse <mikesindahouse@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
the LWC ponds, it could be there, but the bird I first counted as the
Not to throw sand on anyone’s hopes of seeing the Northern Shrike at
Northern shrike yesterday I had to change to a mockingbird because a closer
look at the digiscoped photos I took showed it to be a mockingbird.
and glare from the sun in the live camera view made it difficult to get a
While birding, I had my phone attached to my scope, but the heat waves
good look at the bird. I didn’t stop to check the photos at the time, just
left the live view up. Had I taken the phone off the scope and looked with
my eye I may have been able to see it better (at least without the glare)
and make the right call. I wasn’t fully satisfied with my look, but I had
plans to go elsewhere and decided I could go back and get a better look
later on now that I thought I knew where it was hanging out.
photo to it that I realized it wasn’t the shrike after all.
It was only after I entered the checklist and went back in to upload a
the shrike on the corner of the fence on his way in (would have been a much
I’d encountered other birder, whom I’d never met before, who said he saw
much closer and clearer look from his car on the road). He may have very
well seen it then, but he didn’t put a description or a photo in his ebird
checklist. He saw me further down the road and came down and offered to try
to help me get on the shrike, but both birds we got on together turned out
to be mockers.
and note some features, or get a good photo and don’t make any assumptions
So please, if you go looking for it, don’t be like me. Get a good look
because you’re hurry to be somewhere else.
wrote:
Thanks,
Mike Callan
On Dec 5, 2021, at 1:53 PM, Stacey A <countryangel0906@xxxxxxxxx>
Northern Shrike Lee and I first spotted three weeks ago today, Good luck to
It is good to see that quite a few others have gotten to see the
everyone else who is going to try to see it.
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