I didn't look at the second picture. It looks like a shrike- mask, white
wing bars, black wings. I'd say there's two birds.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019, 2:25 PM Alan Contreras <acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Facial contrast looks pretty extreme for Say’s Phoebe but rest of the bird
looks ok. I first thought maybe an imm Vermilion Fly but I think it is too
evenly colored and lacking in contrast for that. Would be nice to find it
again.
Alan Contreras
acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
Eugene, Oregon
www.alanlcontreras.com
http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/edge-of-awe
On Feb 13, 2019, at 1:59 PM, Tanya Pluth <tanya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello all,
I regularly bird in Greenway Park, Beaverton, while walking my dog. Today
I noted a strange bird, perched on a short tree, solitary, and staring down
as if hunting. It was pretty small in size, which made me wonder what it
could be. It flew to land on a nearby thistle.
At first sight I thought it was a Phoebe, but it would be very rare to be
a Say's - and then I wondered if an immature shrike? But the shrike's I've
seen are bigger...
I didn't have a camera with me and naturally when I went back with my
camera, I couldn't relocate the bird!
I did manage a few poor quality iphone photos, linked here:
https://flic.kr/p/2dCUVxA
https://flic.kr/p/2eEesX7
Thanks in advance for any help! Another reminder of why it's good to bring
my "real" camera each day!
Tanya
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Because home is where the music plays...
