[wisb] blue grosbeak
- From: joan schnabel/jeff falk <joanjeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Wisconsin Birding Network <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 23:19:28 -0500
I was glad to see the blue grosbeak post because I also thought I saw
one the other day. I was walking on a road that goes into the
Mississippi backwaters in Buffalo county and I saw a blue bird that
was definitely not a bluebird. Nor did I think it was an indigo
bunting. It was bigger and it didn't have that breath taking
iridescent blue color. It had a large heavy beak, it was mostly blue
but I would also describe this bird as , kind of motley. the wing
coverts looked kind of dark, and it was white by the vent and the
undertail coverts. I looked it up in sibleys and thought it was an
immature male blue grosbeak, but I really am not sure, and of
course no camera so it was interesting to see Jim Schwarz's post
describing what seems to be a very similar bird. A few days earlier
I was walking behind Cochrane, also by the river, and I saw a
Northern Mockingbird. Great markings, white wing patches, white on the
outer aspects of the tail, , very obliging bird, very close, not a
shrike, and again no camera. Joan Schnabel Fountain City, Buffalo
County WI
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