[obol] Re: ID Assistance needed - Townsend's Solitaire?
- From: "Tom Crabtree" <tc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <d_villa@xxxxxxxx>, "'OBOL'" <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 15:23:27 -0800
Congrats, Dawn, that is definitely a Townsend’s Solitaire. Not sure what he is
doing at Pixieland, but a good find for Marion County.
Tom Crabtree, Bend
From: obol-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:obol-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
dawn
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 2:14 PM
To: OBOL
Cc: lcbno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [obol] ID Assistance needed - Townsend's Solitaire?
I saw this bird at Pixieland a couple of hours ago - pretty much entirely grey
- breast was either white or paler grey than the body, long tail darker than
body and had some white at the tips, VIVID white eyering.
My first glimpse of him was perched upright at the tip of a small snag (a male
Rufous Hummingbird was wanting the same spot but left him alone after buzzing
him a couple of times). About 8' tall snag. I had been watching an OLIVE
SIDED FLYCATCHER just before I saw him and my first thought was it seemed an
odd place for the flycatcher to have moved to (then everything else that was
wrong about that first thought came to fore - wrong coloration, too big, etc.).
Size -- I thought it was larger than the flycatcher, maybe similar (but
thinner) to a robin?
I never heard it make a sound - it moved pretty silently to another similar
location, then to a branch (about same height off ground).
Perched where I first saw him (overexposed in bright sunlight):
http://s1014.photobucket.com/user/villaesc/media/Birds/Pixieland/IMG_6054_1_zps3340e3a3.jpg.html
On branch (color more accurate):
http://s1014.photobucket.com/user/villaesc/media/Birds/Pixieland/IMG_6092_1_zps921c1155.jpg.html
His back:
http://s1014.photobucket.com/user/villaesc/media/Birds/Pixieland/IMG_6062_1_zpsc6dad2c9.jpg.html
Thanks!
dawn
Lincoln City/Nelscott
Blogging About the Coast
dvillabirds.blogspot.com
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