Date: 1/12/26 3:33 pm From: Paul Conover via groups.io <zoiseaux...> Subject: Re: [labird] grosbeak or blackbird
Michael, labird, Correct on the redwing call. Redwings are amazingly variable, underrated in their beauty, and sometimes show beautiful coloration. Aside from the bill, the extent of streaking below is a good mark. I envy people who get them at their feeders, although many people curse them. I've never had one show up in my yard. Paul Conover Lafayette -------- Original message --------From: "Michael Cavanaugh via groups.io" <michaelcav...> Date: 1/12/26 5:20 PM (GMT-06:00) To: <labird...> 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
