Sounds a bit like a Cave Swallow...except the forked tail. Photos? Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 9, 2016, at 8:28 AM, "Tanya Beyer" <epiphaniesafi...@gmail.com> wrote: > To my great surprise within the hour a little bird teetering and pulsing up > on the power line along our county road proved to be a swallow, rather > scruffy, with the unmistakable huge primaries out behind. I was thinking > 'tree swallow' at first given normal arrivals in a traditional spring, but > spoke to the bird and walked up under it, causing it to turn around and > face me, revealing the dark orange throat and beginnings of a fork in the > tail. Coloration along the flanks was not clean but brownish, fading onto a > white breast and belly, no warm coloration. The ends of the secondaries > bore a wide grey bar and there was a grayish collar along the back of the > neck a bit like the marking on a cliff swallow. When it flew the forked > tail was even more apparent. > > Pussy willows were in bud along the deep water of the ditch down the road. > *Tanya Beyer* > > http://www.epiphaniesafield.com/home-page.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
