[leasbirds] Re: Help with id

  • From: Len Hovey <len_hovey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 21:55:10 -0500

It’s all good. Don’t feel bad at all. Another reminder of how different even common birds can look due to light, angle, weird camera/optic hiccups etc. 
I have to look two or three times sometimes before I recognize a dove or Robin standing or perching at a funny angle, puffed up, oddly silhouetted, or well-camouflaged in foliage. Sometimes you just can’t tell until it flies or vocalizes. 
-Len 



On Apr 10, 2023, at 9:16 PM, Melody Huffman <biblebarn3432@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Feel kinda dumb now.  I can see it is a female house sparrow.  Kinda like hearing your tire making a knocking sound and you change tires because it has developed a knot on it.  Then later the spare you put on is making the same sound so you begin to think there is something else wrong with the car.  Only to have the  mechanic tell you that you have a bump on the spare.  Hope all enjoyed the laugh. 
Melody
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 5:41 PM Melody Huffman <biblebarn3432@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
thanks Brad.  It was so much smaller than a sparrow.  But maybe it is.
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 5:13 PM Brad Shine <sonofshine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Melody. 
To me, this is a female house sparrow. I went ahead and lightened the photo, decreased contrast and lowered the saturation (which was really high- resulting in the higher concentration of yellow). 


The bill looks heavy, eye stripe with Buffy above, and a white line in the wing…
The photo under the picture of the egg here looks similar:
https://radfordphenology.weebly.com/house-sparrow.html
Brad Shine

On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 4:47 PM Melody Huffman <biblebarn3432@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We went out this afternoon for a bit since no school.  We saw Cedar waxwings at Tech arboretum but the most interesting bird was in our  neighbor's tree as we  returned home.  Merlin can't identify other than calling it a bobalink but it isn't that.  Any ideas.  Smaller than a  housesparrow and the yellow underparts.

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