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Today, in the mist clad morning coolness, I spent some time in my
fields by the power lines counting for
my e bird submissions.
There were a few surprises, first of them a chestnut sided warbler. I
couldn't find any chestnut colouring at all,
but there was a bit of yellow around the vent, so perhaps a first fall
female? (Reading from J. Dunn's Warblers.)
Also what I took to be an immature blue grey gnatcatcher, since it
still had downy white feathers on the rump.
But most interesting was an immature red headed woodpecker, that I
almost overlooked. Expecting a flicker or
red bellied woodpecker, the birds that are always on the dead elm, it
took me a minute to realize I was looking
at an unusual visitor to my yard. A dusky head, and white wing
patches still bisected with a dark line.
This is the third time in 15 years here that a juvenile has visited.
Never, an adult. He spent some time resting in
the pileated woodpecker's nesting hole.
The same snag attracted a male kestrel.
Inga Schmidt
Chagrin River Road at the Geauga/Cuy Co. line
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