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Linda, sure looks like a domestic canary! (I bred red-factor bronze canaries for several years) If it is not an escaped domestic could it be an aberrant American Goldfinch, lacking the melanin that creates dark pigments? Kelly Linda Krueger wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could identify a bird for me. This bird > came to my crabapple tree in Hastings on May 12th. That was the only > day I saw him. He was a bright, vivid yellow with no other markings. > He had a broad orange beak with a tad of black at the tip and had > orange legs. I would guess his size to be slightly smaller than a > Chickadee. I'm not sure, but it appeared he may have had some downy > feathers. > > David Cahlander has put two photographs I took of this bird on the web > sites below if you would like to help me identify the bird. > > http://www.cahlander.com/MysteryBird1.JPG > > http://www.cahlander.com/MysteryBird2.JPG > > Thank you. > > Linda Krueger > > Hastings, MN > -- Kelly Larson Feathered Friend Wild Bird Store 3rd Annual Great River Birding Festival 2nd Annual Great River Morel Festival 2nd Annual Great River Eagle Spot Festival Red Wing, MN 651-267-1001 Visit Our Website http://www.thefeatheredfriend.com --------------79749CED019F554AD15688EA Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080" lang="EN-US"> Linda, <br> sure looks like a domestic canary! (I bred red-factor bronze canaries for several years) If it is not an escaped domestic could it be an aberrant American Goldfinch, lacking the melanin that creates dark pigments? <p>Kelly <p>Linda Krueger wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"/><o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/><o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/><!--[if !mso]> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal-compose; font-family:Arial; color:windowtext;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <div class=Section1> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><font face="Courier New"><font size=-1>I was wondering if anyone could identify a bird for me. This bird came to my crabapple tree in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hastings</st1:place></st1:City> on May 12th. That was the only day I saw him. He was a bright, vivid yellow with no other markings. He had a broad orange beak with a tad of black at the tip and had orange legs. I would guess his size to be slightly smaller than a Chickadee. I'm not sure, but it appeared he may have had some downy feathers.</font></font><o:p></o:p></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><font face="Courier New"><font size=-1>David Cahlander has put two photographs I took of this bird on the web sites below if you would like to help me identify the bird.</font></font><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><font face="Courier New"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.cahlander.com/MysteryBird1.JPG">http://www.cahlander.com/MysteryBird1.JPG</a></font></font><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><font face="Courier New"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.cahlander.com/MysteryBird2.JPG">http://www.cahlander.com/MysteryBird2.JPG</a></font></font><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><font face="Courier New"><font size=-1>Thank you.</font></font><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><font face="Courier New"><font size=-1>Linda Krueger</font></font><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"'><font face="Courier New"><font size=-1>Hastings</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>, <st1:State w:st="on">MN</font></font></st1:State></span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></div> </blockquote> <p>-- <br>Kelly Larson <br>Feathered Friend Wild Bird Store <br>3rd Annual Great River Birding Festival <br>2nd Annual Great River Morel Festival <br>2nd Annual Great River Eagle Spot Festival <br>Red Wing, MN <br>651-267-1001 <br> <p>Visit Our Website <br><A HREF="http://www.thefeatheredfriend.com">http://www.thefeatheredfriend.com</A> <br> </body> </html> --------------79749CED019F554AD15688EA--