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15 years ago

This green bird is at my feeder everyday. I took these pictures through binoculars with a point & shoot camera. Not to good!!! Its some kind of finch. I looked at pictures on the web it doesn't look like any of them.

Here is a link that might be useful: picture of green bird

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orrin_h
15 years ago
I think you have a female Painted Bunting.

-O-
rachel_frome_ky
15 years ago
Lucky you!!!
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Atlamol, I was just coming to post a pic I found of a white winged crossbill! But there are 2 probs: 1) I haven't gotten a good look at the beAk yet and 2) I live in northwest GA. My book shows there may be a pocket of red crossbills in this area but does not show any white winged presence. It also says they very rarely show up at feeders but that's where I'm seeing these birds. tsugajunki, I also thought pine grosbeak for a while but then realized it's larger than the bird I'm seeing. There are quite a few of these in my yard - maybe up to 10. What in the world would they be doing so far away from their territory? According to my book (Peterson) they don't even migrate here.
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Whitelacey.......this is so funny! I looked out my kitchen window, and on the ground under my suet feeder was a bird that looked just like what you described. Very black head and back with white stripes on the wings, and very white chest and abdomen. Of course, just as I turned to get my camera, it flew off. I should have stayed and observed more instead! As it flew off, it had pretty obvious white wing stripes. My first inclination was a juvenile male towhee.....since we have lots of towhees around. I saw no brown. I'll keep my eye out and my camera close-by........but I immediately thought of you and wondered if, now, I will be driven crazy too. hahaha What caught my eye as it was flying up to a tree was the white on it's wings, which made me think of a red-headed woodpecker. I looked up juvenile redheaded woodpecker and some of the pics looked like it, except mostly in the pics, their heads were grayish. Oh well.....hopefully I'll see it again!
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JZOO
Original Author
15 years ago
Thanks, I seen some pictures of the female painted bunting...and thats what i thought. I was reading that they migrate south. Its cold here in new jersey.
orrin_h
15 years ago
I just did a quick google and found this Dec 2007 NJ record, so it's possible. And not to be snarky, really, but your photos are tough (the bill is particularly daunting); but I didn't see anything 'wrong' for my somewhat tentative ID. You have the bird in your yard, you have binoculars, and there aren't that many candidates.

-O- (who in all honesty and seriousness is not being snarky, just trying to help you get the right bird)

Here is a link that might be useful: female painted bunting in NJ
bandjzmom
15 years ago
Orrin,
I am curious. I have a dear friend who lives in Central Florida, and she has a little group of Painted Buntings wintering at her house each year. I know that the juvenile males are completely green like the females. How do you positively ID the bird pictured here as a female? I believe that the "Painted Bunting people" refer to all of the green ones as "Greenies" since it is so difficult to be sure of whether they are actually females or juvenile males. Is that right? I'd love to know how to tell the difference. Thanks! ~~Angie
orrin_h
15 years ago
That's partly why I wrote "I think" it's a female Painted Bunting; I was more confident with the species ID than the age/sex diagnosis, perhaps I should have been more specific in my wording.

-O-
bandjzmom
15 years ago
Thanks a bunch Orrin. I wanted to know if there might be a way to tell them apart that I did not yet know of. It's amazing to see one that far north at this time of year, isn't it? I wonder how often that actually happens and also why the little thing did not go South.
Lucky you indeed JZOO!!! Wowza. I think you should report that sighting to PBOT. Here is their website:
http://www.paintedbuntings.org/
jiggreen
15 years ago
Wow, zone 6 and a painted bunting!!! Lucky, lucky you!! Maybe you'll get super lucky and see a male also! I think I'd pass out if I saw a male painted bunting at my feeder! (I'm in Pennsylvania!)

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