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Melospiza melodia
brown feathers on wing, brown streaks on white chest, head brown and grey. Has white on side of head with brown stripe coming off the eye.
This bird is not normally in my area this time of year, but will winter here. It is about 60 miles too far south according to my book. But I have been seeing several of these birds. I might have it misidentified.
The bird closer to the camera was hopping/flying from a hanging basket to the feeder, getting some seeds, and hopping/flying back to another bird. Then it was giving the other bird the seeds. This went on for about 5 minutes and the two flew off. The other one never did go to the feeder. I am thinking this was a male and female pair possibly with the male trying to court the female? It is an odd time of year for this I would think (end of August?)
Spotted on Aug 8, 2011
Submitted on Sep 4, 2011
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