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| Letter from Dixon Cartwright (April 22, 2023) Thanks, Laura. — Dixon C. Letter from Ray Daly (April 23, 2023) By the way. We have about 30-40 red wing blackbirds and Grackles eating on our feed table. And “one of them has a TOTALLY white tail”. Pure white, with no hues of any kind. And, we have 30-40 robins. We kind of feel that the family we had last year in the nest on a ladder on our shed has returned. With the four young ones that survived. They take baths in our bird bath, and they do so, even if we are only a few feet away from them. Our pups can be within 3-4 feet, and they still use the bath. Laura writes: Thank you for sharing. I wish we would get some of the red winged blackbirds here, but we are getting close. We have grackles which are blackbirds, and we have starlings which are not blackbirds but hang out with blackbirds. Then as I mentioned in the commentary for the April 22, 2023, newsletter we then had an unidentified bird which we have now identified as a brewer’s blackbird. We never had these brewer’s blackbirds before. The males are iridescent colors similar to a grackle’s head but all over the body. The females are very similar to a sparrow in color but perhaps slightly bigger than a sparrow. Brewer’s blackbirds are about half the size of most grackles and slightly plumper. |
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