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Saturday, May 15. 2010

Bird du Jour: Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher

 



This migratory bird, resembling a miniature Mockingbird in appearance, in habits, and even in song sometimes, summers in the Eastern and Southwestern US. The last one I saw was quite tame, flitting around the top of shrubs along our stream, occasionally uttering his "spee" call.


You can read about this bird here.


Do our readers ever see these little guys?

Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation, Our Essays at 05:00 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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I wondered what these little guys were. The other evening, I was down at the local park, just sitting and watching the lake - there were a lot of these birds zipping around right along the surface of the water at about the time the bug hatch started up. Very manueverable little critters and pretty quick too.
#1 Tom Francis on 2010-05-15 07:26 (Reply)
Those were tree swallows, I think
#1.1 bd on 2010-05-15 09:00 (Reply)
Off topic but sort of related: a BBC instructional series for wildlife photography -
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/11/bbc-wildlife-magazine-offers-free-web-classes-to-make-you-a-better-photographer
#2 John A on 2010-05-15 13:47 (Reply)
I might have seen one of those a few weeks ago in my backyard, both in the limbs of the oak tree that's there (and was still putting out new leaves) and swooping / hovering right under the eaves of my house, I think trying to pick spiders out of webs. A pretty small bird -- I couldn't figure out what it was. Haven't seen one since. I live right in the middle of Atlanta, so maybe it was on its migratory way to elsewhere.
#3 T.K. Torch on 2010-05-15 15:17 (Reply)

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