I'm in need of some assistance in IDing a feather. A friend sent me this photo and asked what it was. My first couple of guesses seem to be way off given habitat and a quick search of online bird images. I won't share my thoughts on ID so as to not influence the masses or embarrass myself :)
Found in Ossining, NY (Westchester County) in friend's backyard. Yard surrounded by woods, no water adjacent. Small woman's fingers for scale. ___ On a different note, my wife and I just returned from a short trip to view the sandhill crane migration in central Nebraska. Highly recommended to any birder. Seems that the spring bird activity has really increased while we were away. In the last 24 hrs our yard in Yorktown Heights (northern Westchester County), the backyard sightings include: fox sparrows actively digging through leaves; a lone woodcock living in the hedgerows; an immature yellow-bellied sapsucker digging for insects in a maple; and a new "life" bird for the yard, an eastern bluebird (very atypical habitat, even for a tired migrant). Please reply directly to me with feather ID so as to not clog up NYSBIRDS Thanks, Tom Rhindress -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
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