What a beautiful bird, Linda. Love your photo and the detail you captured. I have never seen a bird on 365 that looks like this one not that one has not been posted. You are lucky to have so many birds at your place. FAV
It's so nice to see you back! I'm taking a break from 365 due to a recent very unexpected health issue. I hope to be returning as soon as I can. I don't have my field guide handy. Could be a female grackle. As I recall they have stripes as opposed to the males being all black. Great photo!!!
@httpgeffed@darsphotos@kerristephens@anazad511@bkbinthecity@tonygig Thank you for your comments. A co-worker identified this as a female cowbird. The males are black with brown or bronze heads. After he identified it as a cowbird, I looked it up in my book and it does look like that is what it is.
@pyrrhula Thank you! @yaorenliu There are some cats around and I am hoping they will not catch the birds. @esox Martin, look for the female of the brown or bronze head cowbird. A co-worker said that is what it is. We have some white winged blackbirds here also, but they are very shy. I had never heard of them until they started hanging out at the feeders.
@olivetreeann@edorreandresen@happypat Thank you for your comments. It has been identified as a female cowbird. @cimes1 Carole, thank you for visiting and commenting. Hope you will be better soon. I was sick for a long time, with doctors only wanted to treat the symptoms.. I finally got the attention to one that had helped me with another problem a year or so ago. He did exploratory surgery, fixed what he found and I am feeling much better, although very tired as I have gone back to work. Hour and a half drive to work, due to traffic, hour plus to two hours drive home in evenings leave me very tired.
@grannysue I was recently "out of the blue" diagnosed with peritoneal carcinoma -- a rare condition stemming from a mild stage 1 cancer I had surgery for in 1993 - 22 yrs ago. I am so happy you found a doctor who could help you with your condition. That must have been tough for you going through all that uncertainly for such a long time. I was in the hospital for a week, got my 1st round of chemo and now at home. But will not be posting photos for awhile. I will, however, check in here from time to time to visit. Take care, Linda and I hope you get to feeling like new again. That is a long commute -- I couldn't do that!
@cimes1 Carol, I pray you will get the help you need to get better. It was a long, hard road for me to finally get help. I am not 100%, but I am at least 90 - 95% better than I was. They did remove things from my abdomen and they were not cancerous, but did cause extremely bad pain.
@grannysue Thanks, Linda. I'm happy to hear it wasn't cancerous but I can imagine the pain you had. And happy you feel so much better! My abd. pains and bulging have finally eased up a bit. I'll probably need to have surgery and then more chemo. Won't know until my next appt 4/6. Take care and I'm so glad to see you back here on 365.
March 26th, 2015
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