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April 11, 2016

Monday Morning Mystery 041116

FullSizeRender(1)Some cemeteries are popular places to go birding — but this mystery requires a birding I.D. on a tombstone, not among the tombstones.

Can you ID the bird in this Westchester County cemetery?  Hint: It's working the graveyard shift.

The cemetery is called Sparta Cemetery in Ossining, and it is a pre-Revolutionary War cemetery.

Photo and mystery by Kathy Williams. (Thanks, Kathy!)

 

4 comments

  • Carol Flanagan
    10 years ago Reply

    I think it is a Phoenix.

  • Ginny
    10 years ago Reply

    Oldest legible tombstone in the Sparta Cemetery, Ladew family plot – Section 7
    Sarah Ladew, the daughter of Abraham and Anna who was born Apr 26, 1759
    and died Oct. 21, 1764, aged 5 years, 7 mos. and 11 days
    I like Yellow Crowned Night Heron answer but does not have curved bill ….That birds looks extinct Gallinule/ Pheasant…..

  • Pat Price
    10 years ago Reply

    Did you know that the legendary “Leatherman” is also buried in that cemetery?

  • Fran Duggan
    10 years ago Reply

    Yellow Crowned Night Heron?

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4 comments

  • Carol Flanagan
    10 years ago Reply

    I think it is a Phoenix.

  • Ginny
    10 years ago Reply

    Oldest legible tombstone in the Sparta Cemetery, Ladew family plot – Section 7
    Sarah Ladew, the daughter of Abraham and Anna who was born Apr 26, 1759
    and died Oct. 21, 1764, aged 5 years, 7 mos. and 11 days
    I like Yellow Crowned Night Heron answer but does not have curved bill ….That birds looks extinct Gallinule/ Pheasant…..

  • Pat Price
    10 years ago Reply

    Did you know that the legendary “Leatherman” is also buried in that cemetery?

  • Fran Duggan
    10 years ago Reply

    Yellow Crowned Night Heron?

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