Snow buntings! Very cool. Can you chase them a little south to my feeders in Worthington? ;-) Heather Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 5, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Les Chambers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Can someone suggest an ID for this small flock of birds that are at my > Delaware OH feeders intermittently today? They are slightly larger than a > House Sparrow. White necks with snowy white breasts except for reddish > shoulders and prominent brown/red spots behind each eye. Heads have a > golden-brown stripe on top. Their eyes are very small, black and round and > their beaks are small, triangular in shape-like a finches only smaller. > Their wings and backs are olive-brown save for large white wing bars that > run the whole length of each wing. They were feeding with Sparrows and House > Finches. > > > > Les Chambers > > Delaware OH > > > > Sunlight is the best disinfectant Louis Brandeis. > > Ohio birds [[log in to unmask]] > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]