Yes, there is a very good reason they cannot be juvenile Common Grackles: Common Grackles do not even retain their dull brown juvenal plumage into the first fall. Here is a good rule: if you are in or near a salt marsh and you see a mixed flock of Common Grackles and Rusty Blackbirds, you have made a misidentification. [?]
Hugh On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:30 PM, scottvarney1...@yahoo.com < scottvarney1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Is there a particular reason that these can't be Common Grackle juveniles? > The tails are far too short for Boat Tailed and they even have a slight > yellow tinge on the throat like the Common Crackle. > > Scott Varney > Moreau, NY > > Sent from my HTC One on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Robert Taylor" <rmtaylo...@gmail.com> > To: "nysbirds-l" <nysbirds-l@cornell.edu> > Subject: [nysbirds-l] Jones Beach West End/ Meadowbrook Parkway Sunday: > Rough Legged Hawk, Blackbirds (not Rusty) > Date: Mon, Feb 24, 2014 12:25 AM > > Hi Everyone, > > Thanks for everyone's help with the blackbird ID from yesterday - most are > saying they were Boat Tailed Grackles and not Rusty Blackbirds. > > Speaking of blackbirds, at Jones Beach West End and by Meadowbrook Parkway > I saw Red Wing Blackbirds and Boat Tailed Grackles. > > At the Coast Guard Marina I saw the same waterfowl as Saturday - a female > bufflehead and 2 Horned Grebes as well as 2 Common Loons and Brant. There > were more birds on the median today: Killdeer, Juncos, Mockingbirds. > > I met a very pleasant couple looking for a light phase/ghost Northern > Harrier, but we found a typical one over the dunes. A crowd was gathered > observing a Snowy Owl. > > Along the Meadowbrook, I saw the previously reported Rough Legged Hawk and > also 3 Red Tailed Hawks. > > Good birding, > Rob in Massapequa > > pic of the Rough Legged Hawk etc on my blog > http://longislandbirding.blogspot.com/ > -- > *NYSbirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail > Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html> > *Please submit your observations to **eBird*<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > *!* > -- > -- > *NYSbirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail > Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html> > *Please submit your observations to **eBird*<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > *!* > -- > -- Hugh McGuinness Washington, D.C. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
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