A few birds on the feeder

[DerekW]

First of all some pictures of Steller's Jay so that you can see the markings etc









A Dark-eyed Junco



Some House Finches











A White-breasted Nuthatch





A Red-Breasted Nuthatch



Taken with the E5 and the 50-200mm lens

Thanks to David M and PeterBirder for pointing out the error of my ways - I have now updated the names.

[David M]

Re: A few birds on the feeder

Derek, the correct spelling is Steller's Jay. The nuthatch is a White-breasted Nuthatch. There's a mis identification but I'll wait and see if anyone else spots it as a challenge.

[DerekW]

Re: A few birds on the feeder

David - Thank you - I have updated the errors, re the other error - please PM me the correct answer, and I will update it much later to give people a chance to spot the error.

Thanks

[PeterBirder]

Re: A few birds on the feeder

Superb shots of some great N.American birds.

As to the mis identification, the Mountain Chickadee doesn't look quite right to me. It doesn't have a black bib and the underparts a very buff. However I can't figure out what other New Mexico bird it could be so I may be wrong.

Regards.

[DerekW]

Re: A few birds on the feeder

Peter - you are correct the Chickadee is incorrectly described it is a Red-Breasted Nuthatch and the Junco is a Dark-eyed Junco.

Apologies for the incorrect names and thanks to David M for letting me know where I had erred.

[David M]

Re: A few birds on the feeder

I think some North American birds were named by someone partially colour blind. Red-breasted Nuthatches have buffy orange breasts. Purple Finches are really raspberry red and Purple Martins are bluish black.