Subject: [Fwd: RBA: Brambling in SE Portland]
Date: Dec 13 16:36:03 1998
From: Mike Patterson - mpatters at orednet.org


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From: Ed McVicker & Gert Bernstein <edgert at TELEPORT.COM>
Subject: RBA: Brambling in SE Portland
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Debbie Bush, Margie Edgington, and I saw a female BRAMBLING today while
looking for the Costa's hummingbird at the brick house at SE 9th and Malden
in Portland. We first saw the bird at noon and over the next 45 minutes
the bird left and reappeared 3 more times. It was moving around with a
large, loose flock of robins and starlings that were attracted to the
hawthorne trees (and berries) that line Malden St. We saw the bird on the
ground and in the trees on Malden between 8th and 10th. It was foraging
among the robins on the ground and feeding on catkins in a birch tree. It
visited a
feeder in a dogwood tree near the front door of the brick house with the
hummingbird feeder.

The site is two blocks west of the Sellwood Park Oaks Bottom entrance on SE
7th St. It seemed to come and go with the other birds around the
neighborhood.

Description:

The bird was smaller and slimmer than the nearby robins. It was about the
size (though different shape) of the house sparrows nearby. It had a tawny
orange wash across its upper chest, down its sides and on the shoulder.
The belly was white. There was no streaking or other marking on the breast
or belly

Head: Light brownish-gray with a dark line along its head from front to
back on boths sides of the crown. The line extended down the back of the
head to the nape. Head had a pointed or crowned look.

Face: Dark moustachial stripe on mostly plain grayish face. Eye dark.

Bill: Finch-like. Light colored. Less stout than a House Finch's bill.

Back: Tawny color with black streaking. A large white rump patch
extending onto the lower back was conspicuous when the bird flew or opened
its wings.

Tail: Dark. Extended well past the folded wings and deeply notched.

Wings: The orangish should patch was narrow giving the appearance of 2
wing bars-tawny orange over white on dark wing.

We did not find the Costa's, though we did get an excellent look at two
male Anna's (one with a bright red crown and throat) and a third hummer
that looked a little smaller with a small dark color patch on its bib.
Couldn't tell the color of the patch.

Ed McVicker
Ed McVicker and Gert Bernstein
10033 S. W. 53rd Avenue
Portland, OR 97219
(503) 246-1007
edgert at teleport.com


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