Wildlife & Related

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Northeast of walden last weekend

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Originally Posted by Irving

Okay Hummer, here is another bird identification for you. The pictures are terrible because this bird is inconsiderate and built a dumb nest and put the eggs at the bottom.

The bird is about 2/3 to 1/2 the size of a finch, looks similar, but with a beak about twice as long. It has a loud call that sounds more like an insect than a bird. Instead of a nice round nest full of padding, it just threw a ton of sticks into this bird house and chucked some eggs at the bottom. The eggs are about the size of my pinky and are a redish swirl color over a tan/white base. Seems to co-exist with the 100's of finches living at my and my neighbor's house. I'll attempt to get a photo later which hopefully isn't too difficult since I see this bird every day out my window. What do you think?

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Irving, you've got a House Wren there. Cool little bird but aggressive and sometimes will puncture the eggs of other cavity nesting birds. Often they'll build several nests but use only one (to limit competition). Not related to finches but more closely to American Dippers.

Irving, FWIW the Merlin Bird ID app from Cornell Lab is free and amazingly great.

That's the one! That scold sound she makes is interesting.

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Originally Posted by Mtneer

Irving, FWIW the Merlin Bird ID app from Cornell Lab is free and amazingly great.

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I think I stumbled into there just now looking for the songs.

Henpecked and Chick Norris, love the photos. I like velvet.