> -----Original Message----- > From: Ohio birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Steve > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 3:38 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [Ohio-birds] Bird ID help > > Copied from post I did on website. to see picture go here: > http://www.ohiobirds.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2468#p2468 > > I had a new bird to me today. Although I have been seeing > this type of bird for about three weeks now off and on, I > have never gotten a photo. This is probably the worst > picture I have ever taken, but for ID it [b]should[/b] be ok. > > I posted through email earlier in the month about a blackish > bird with white bars on its wings. Only feedback that I > recieved was the thought that it could be just a black bird. > Well that ain't a blackbird. I'm thinking that it is a > Mockingbird. It has been hanging around the same area for > several days now, I am hoping to get a better picture of it later. > > Any help is appreciated. > G'day Steve: It is, indeed, a Northern Mockingbird. A few of my photos of a local Mockingbird near Dublin (haven't updated my site recently) are at: http://www.k8nd.com/Local_Critters/Mockingbird/index.htm. Jeff Maass http://www.k8nd.com/LocalCritters.htm http://www.k8nd.com/CuracaoCritters.htm ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]