Walt has it just about right. Almost certainly a Rose-breasted Grosbeak. (Not Red-breasted.) We have two pair in our neighborhood, attractive birds apart from their gross beaks.
stan On 17 May 2014, at 13:49, John <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > Stan's Oriole prompted me to put this one up on Flickr. > > As I've been going through & scanning old film, I found what must have been > the first roll of Kodak Ektar 25 that I tried. One of the frames has what I > think might be some kind of an Oriole. > > All I know for sure is it's not a Cardinal and I'm pretty sure it's not a > Robin. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/14226796993/ > > My best guess is this is around about Feb 20, 1989 or so. If memory serves > Ektar 25 was introduced in January & according to weather records, we had 4 > inches of snow in Raleigh on Feb 19. > > I noticed the birds were hanging around a fallen limb at the rear edge of my > property, about 50 feet from my house. I hung up my army poncho up under my > back porch to make a blind, set up my tripod and poked the lens out through > the opening for the head. > > It was probably taken with an LX & a Soligor F/8 Cat lens w/ Pentax-K > T-mount. It's not real sharp. > > Anyway, it's the only one of the kind I remember seeing. > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
