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People Get Rusty
Saw eight — count 'em, eight — Rusty Blackbirds this a.m. near Wood Duckling Pond (southeast corner).
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Nice Pic Jim! It’s been (happily) an above-average winter and spring for Rusties at the CF (be sure to enter them in e-bird under the Rusty BB Blitz category! for the ongoing study by Cornell) I heard and saw one Rusty at CF during lunch today–along w/ my first of year Brown Thrasher (seen earlier by Fred)
Shoe–Chat is extremely rare at the CF and almost all sightings are from late summer/early fall. It’s not impossible though. if you see it again try to get a pic if possible.
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It’s been very quiet for warblers so far this year, anyone agree?, but I saw a rusty black bird in the woods a few days ago. I also had a possible sighting of a Yellow Breasted Chat today, if someone else can confirm this. It’d be a first for me on my check list, so I could be wrong. I didn’t get the longest look at him, and I lack the experience of some of the other birders who post here and frequent the nature center. However he was in the shrubs, popped out, with his back turned, tilted his head at me (robin like), but had a more olive back, a yellowish/orange chest and a different eye than a robin.
– Shoe
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Nice Pic Jim! It’s been (happily) an above-average winter and spring for Rusties at the CF (be sure to enter them in e-bird under the Rusty BB Blitz category! for the ongoing study by Cornell) I heard and saw one Rusty at CF during lunch today–along w/ my first of year Brown Thrasher (seen earlier by Fred)
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RF
Shoe
It’s been very quiet for warblers so far this year, anyone agree?, but I saw a rusty black bird in the woods a few days ago. I also had a possible sighting of a Yellow Breasted Chat today, if someone else can confirm this. It’d be a first for me on my check list, so I could be wrong. I didn’t get the longest look at him, and I lack the experience of some of the other birders who post here and frequent the nature center. However he was in the shrubs, popped out, with his back turned, tilted his head at me (robin like), but had a more olive back, a yellowish/orange chest and a different eye than a robin.
– Shoe