Date: 1/12/26 3:20 pm From: Michael Cavanaugh via groups.io <michaelcav...> Subject: [labird] grosbeak or blackbird
Friends, We assume this has to be a Red-winged blackbird. It looks a lot like a rose-breasted grosbeak, but there are wing-bars, some random color, and what seemed to us "in the flesh" a very ambiguous beak! It is eating sunflower seeds. I do have a second shot which looks more like a blackbird beak, which I'll paste in below. And if a blackbird as we suspect, is the beak the giveaway, or are there other things that clearly distinguish the two. (I hope it isn't like the young man that learned to distinguish his white horse from his black horse by measuring the length of the manes.)
Thanks,Michael
