Date: 11/12/25 9:04 am From: weatherbird58 <weatherbird58...> Subject: [ia-bird] Townsend's Solitaire - Boone County
While trying to get some computer work done this morning, I was looking at a bluebird on a nest box in the front yard. A gray long-tailed bird landed briefly on the nearby mailbox post, and the difference in shape was quite different between the birds. I quickly grabbed my binoculars as it flew up along a maple tree trunk. Noted white eye ring and somewhat buffy tone to undersides, small dull wing patch and white outer tail feathers. Townsend's Solitaire again this fall/winter season! The solitaire jumped out to an open branch and I quickly got a poor quality photo (bird in the shade through the window and backlit by blue sky). It flew off and it hasn't been seen in over an hour. [image: SolitaireKJ.JPG]
