[obol] Re: id help requested: Hutton's Vireo or Ruby-crowned Kinglet?

  • From: Bob Archer <rabican1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "linda@xxxxxxxx" <linda@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:28:53 -0800

Check out the color of the feet...

Bob Archer
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> On Feb 16, 2015, at 5:54 PM, Linda Fink <linda@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> While watching this bird through the branches today, I thought it was a 
> Hutton's Vireo. But now that I see the only photo I got, it's looking more 
> like a Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Would love to have folks take a look and tell me 
> what it is and why. Thank you!
> 
> http://lindafink-birdnotes.blogspot.com/2015/02/huttons-vireo-or-ruby-crowned-kinglet.html
> 
> I also saw my first warbler of the year on our farm today, but don't know 
> what it is and did not succeed in getting a photo. It appeared white with 
> black stripes on the side and a gray back, but it was way up in the top of 
> alders along our little creek so I was mostly seeing it's under side. It said 
> zit zit when it flew from one tree top to the next. It did not flutter around 
> like a yellow-rump does and it stayed at the tops. It appeared to be all by 
> itself. I assume it was a Black-throated Gray as that's what we see here in 
> the spring/summer, but I'd like to know if there are other possibilities. It 
> was a very non-colorful Black-throated Gray if that's what it was. But I 
> never got a good look at the head.
> 
> Linda, southwest Yamhill county in the Coast Range foothills
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