Subject: [Tweeters] tail-less black-capped chickadee
Date: Oct 18 19:16:03 2006
From: Rolan Nelson - rnbuffle at yahoo.com


I'll chime in too. last summer, I believe, a large gull flew over the Hundred Acre Woods (NE Lakewood, Pierce Co) and it was also completely tailless. I marveled that it could fly at all!

-Rolan

Craig Kerns <cekerns at eskimo.com> wrote:
I had a juvenile towhee a few years back with no tail feathers in my
yard. It took me a little while to figure out what it was since part
of their character is that tail twitching around while they're kicking
leaves and such out of the way.

I figured it had been a close call with a predator of some kind, be it
cat or hawk.

Craig Kerns
Lake Forest Park, WA
Backyard birding pictures at http://www.eskimo.com/~cekerns/birds

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:44:16 -0700, you wrote:

>I have five chickadees visiting the sunflower seed feeder. One of
>them has no tail whatsoever.

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Rolan Nelson
Fircrest, WA
rnbuffle at yahoo.com

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