Bird ID

Ginger · Post by **Ginger** » Mar 07, 2008 4:29 pm

What are these birds?
The second one looks like some type of Dove? Sorry for the fuzzy picture, it is from along ways away, through the kitchen window and the fence

The first I have not a clue. It is a bird I have not seen before, but it is pretty!

Thanks!

Ginger

viktoria · Post by **viktoria** » Mar 07, 2008 5:20 pm

Nuthatch and mourning dove.

Ginger · Post by **Ginger** » Mar 07, 2008 5:29 pm

Viktoria,
I thought mourning dove too, but it does not look like the ones I usually have at my house nor the pictures on the net I saw. Is it some different type? The ones we normally see here do not have the black cresent shape on their breast, and they are more grey and without the peach color this one has.

Nuthatch! Cool

Thanks much!

Ginger

Kas · Post by **Kas** » Mar 07, 2008 5:36 pm

Bottom one looks like a Flicka to me.

Kas

Ginger · Post by **Ginger** » Mar 07, 2008 6:07 pm

I just goggled it and it does look like a Flicker.

Thanks much!

Ginger

Spider · Post by **Spider** » Mar 07, 2008 9:27 pm

Nuthatch and flicker.

Very common in MA.

viktoria · Post by **viktoria** » Mar 08, 2008 8:03 am

I should have enlarged the second pic before trying to name the bird. Looks like a flicker had congress with a mourning dove! The markings are right but the color is very odd, at least for my area.

Ginger · Post by **Ginger** » Mar 08, 2008 10:13 am

The color could be due to taking the picture through the window, and also the leaves. If you notice the leaves are about the same peachy color as the bird, and I think they are reflecting maybe? It is a pretty bird though.
Thanks everyone for the identification

Ginger

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Mar 11, 2008 1:45 pm

Top one looks like White-breasted Nuthatch and the bottom one looks like a Northern flicker in parts, but hmmm...hard to tell. I have read they intermingle (the western and eastern types) so maybe this is one of those? Pretty bird. I'm surprised he's on the ground for one though. I've never seen one on the ground. Could he have been hurt?

Spider · Post by **Spider** » Mar 11, 2008 8:17 pm

Flickers are mostly always on the ground, they eat ants. Hopefully he has a taste for fire ants - the spicey food, lol.

viktoria · Post by **viktoria** » Mar 12, 2008 9:13 am

Here, too, I generally see flickers on the ground.

Kas · Post by **Kas** » Mar 12, 2008 11:31 am

Oops! Flicker, not Flicka. Just too Southern and loved the movie (with Roddy McDowell) so flicka was what was in my mind!

Kas

Ginger · Post by **Ginger** » Mar 12, 2008 2:49 pm

Wish, No he was not hurt

. There were actually two of them and they were hopping all around

That is what caught my eye, they sort of hopped with their feet in front of thier bodies, a lot like a woodpecker does, but not like a dove

They stayed on the ground too.
First time I remember every seeing them, but that dosn't mean they wern't here before

Ginger