Re: mystery bird in Leslie of Elizabeth's yard (email address, CenturyLinkCustomer)
The mystery bird may be a juvenile European Starling, which matches your description. That gray beak seems to be all wrong for a Starling, but the youngsters don't earn their yellow beaks until they cast off immaturity. Joe Roller, Denver On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 2:10 PM CenturyLink Customer <[email protected]> wrote: > Two things new this week in my yard. > 1) Grackles! Very used to them when I lived in suburbs & city, not so > much in Elizabeth. We've lived in Elizabeth for almost 20 years and never > seen them until this week. > 2) Mystery bird. This bird did show up several weeks ago and I cannot > find it in any of my bird books. Size of a starling, smooth medium grey > body, grey beak, no distinguishing body marks (none) & eating worms from > bluebird feeder. The closest I've seen is a Townsend's Solitaire, but no > eye ring & no wing marks. Any ideas? > > Lots of bluebird battles. Several males appearing to battle. Houses seem > to be far enough apart (1/2 acre) that I wouldn't think it would be the > cause. > > We did have one pair of Western Tanagers that hung out about a week after > the rest left. I've been working a lot this week so not sure if they're > still around. > > Juncos never used to stick around during mating season until this year. > Not sure where they're nesting? > > Not a lot of hummingbirds like earlier in the year. This may be because > there are so many options for wildflowers as alternatives to my feeder & > yard. Road 21 has huge patches of penstemon that they may be taking > advantage of. > > Leslie > Elizabeth, CO > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DouglBirds" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/douglbirds/2113636092.42488337.1560888634948.JavaMail.zimbra%40q.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/douglbirds/2113636092.42488337.1560888634948.JavaMail.zimbra%40q.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAJpZcUDHrvLnFCwKdiYMivZpxRL9dpo750R96Vo-dzv-oAaPJg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
