Sunday walk payoff

[Dumpsterkitty]

I was a bit hissy today...had to go into work and it was too late when I got done for my long walk.  Had to do the short paved path by the road, but it paid off birdwise better than the woods!

I heard this red-tail before I saw her



I met a couple on the path & pointed her out.  I told them I'd have to look at the pictures at home, but I got the impression she was youngish-her voice sounded young.  It may be wishful thinking, but I think in this digital zoomed (so blurry) one she has one or two brown tail feathers left and it seems her eyes are lighter than an adult.

[Dumpsterkitty]

And I managed to catch this series of the resident Canada Geese taking off & forming up their V

[Dumpsterkitty]

When I saw this one on my walk I thought it was white-breasted nuthatch.  But looking at the pictures at home the head isn't dark enough.  But the tail pattern is right in the takeoff pic. My Peterson has gone MIA (probably in the car in my birding bag with my binoculars)...anybody have a guess?

[MAK]

Mockingbird?

[Bird Crazy]

Mockingbird?

yep I think so.

[Dumpsterkitty]

Mockingbird?

yep I think so.

OK...good possibility...the head is lighter than I usually see on a mockingbird, but definitely more likely than my first guess!

[Donna]

Mockingbird?

yep I think so.

OK...good possibility...the head is lighter than I usually see on a mockingbird, but definitely more likely than my first guess!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHhX_L3o1T4      bguitar

[Dumpsterkitty]

Mockingbird?

yep I think so.

OK...good possibility...the head is lighter than I usually see on a mockingbird, but definitely more likely than my first guess!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHhX_L3o1T4      bguitar

Wow, hadn't heard that version in...like forever...excellent!