Where do you live Mike? I see Maple leaves, possible mountain and quercus
(oak) leaves so are you in a deciduous wood area? By the way, it is bloody
March and you really should have cleaned them up by now!! I know of a good
landscaping service :)
Looking at the leaves and the scale to the feathers it may well be a
bluebird, it's the tail feathers that make me think otherwise!
Martyn
Martyn Stewart
http://www.naturesound.org
Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat
-----Original Message-----
From: M, J, & V Phinney
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 7:56 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] no sound, but id from feather photo
For some reason, I get a distinct 'dove' impression from those
feathers...must be something in my memory from times when I lived within
their range. Can't say absolutely, however, and I don't know of a web page,
but I'm sure some of the birders groups would state an opinion with more
certainty.
Mark Phinney
on 3/21/04 10:47 AM, Mike Feldman at wrote:
> I wish I had a new recording to post, but it's been
> very windy here in the vernal midwest. I have heard
> the screech owls that got me onto this list -- two
> or three nights a week -- around the neighborhood.
> And neighbor who've heard my recording say "Yea, I've
> heard that and wondered what it was".
>
> This morning when I went out the back door with dog
> on leash and camera in hand, and as I opened the door
> there was a swirl of feathers under the storm door.
> It looked like the remains of a fight or kill.
>
> I snapped a shot of the pile and put it on my web site:
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> http://www.advancenet.net/~feldman/Feathers_by_back_door.jpg
>
> My initial impression is that this is a blue jay,
> but the feeder close to our back door usually
> has doves and assorted smaller sparrow/finch-like
> birds. I'm new to the identification arts and sciences,
> but I was impressed by the skills and resources of this
> list at id'ing from sound recordings. Is there a similar
> catalog or bunch of fanatics for id by feathers?
>
> -- Mike
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
Yahoo! Groups Links
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