Song birds in Discovery park, Seattle (1 Viewer)

Tero

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• Jul 27, 2019

• #1

Last week.

I saw several of these brown little thing, seemed like juveniles. Junco? Song sparrow?

 

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Tero

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• Jul 27, 2019

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A little puff ball. The bill was very small. Tail not long enough for bushtit. Flycatcher?

 

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fugl

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• Jul 27, 2019

• #3

#1. Young Song Sparrow (I think)
#2. ??

 

Tero

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• Jul 28, 2019

• #4

OK, thanks.

 

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birdmeister

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• Jul 28, 2019

• #5

1. Song Sparrow, maybe a molting adult
2. Swallow/flycatcher sp seems a good bet, but I can't comment further than that!

 

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fugl

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• Jul 28, 2019

• #6

birdmeister said:

1. Song Sparrow, maybe a molting adult
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Yes, you’re right about the age. On my hurried first glance, I thought I saw the soft basal flanges characteristic of baby passerine beaks but on second look I see that I imagined them.

 

Tero

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• Jul 28, 2019

• #7

i got some much better pictures of a rough-winged swallow that day a half hour later. The coloring was darker than this on top, light below.

 

Tero

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• Jul 28, 2019

• #8

Bird 2 is likely a cliff swallow. The dark band at the tip of the tail suggests that. Plus the hints of rusty color. It has puffed all the light colored feathers so we do not see much of the head color.

 

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