Thank you all for your feedback! Hopefully I'll see it again : ) It's a new one for me. Next up: the warblers hunting in my field. this will be tough...
Also-why is our male bluebird obsessed with my barn windows? Is this a thrush/territorial thing? I've seen an AMRO obsess like this in the Kootenays of BC--from about 5am to 6pm he'd be at the window. I don't see how starving himself to fight with his reflection all day can be an evolutionary advantage... Happy birding! Danielle M. Washington County On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:07 PM, HawkWelter <[email protected]> wrote: > I had a very similar experience in the Louisville Swamp area last weekend > except I was able to eventually get a better view and it was brown thrasher > so that's a pretty good guess. > > Dan Hawkins > NE Minneapolis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Danielle > McLaughlin > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 8:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [mou-net] [mou-rba] help with mystery bird ID > > Hello-I was wondering if anyone could suggest the identity of the amazing > songster I heard yesterday. I was out cleaning the paddock when I heard an > unfamiliar song--it didn't repeat or have any pattern that I could discern. > At that point I started searching for it. It was quite backlit in the > bright sun--but it seems to be the size and shape of a slender grackle-with > a longer beak. I could just make out some stripes on the breast. The song > was amazing-reminded me of the lyre bird-it kept changing, and I'm certain > I > heard it say "ribbit" as if it was mimicking a frog! > > After perusing the MOU birds of Minnesota list I have settled on brown > thrasher as a possible identity for this bird. When it flew away I saw a > reddish brown back and wings, low, swooping flight like a woodpecker. Does > anyone have any other suggestions? I'm new to Minnesota so this is just a > guess! > > Danielle McLaughlin > Washington County > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
