Posted by jba/fl on 9/1/10 2:32pm
Msg #351222

We have a bird named for us....

I saw the most gorgeous bird over the week-end and spent a good part of my morning identifying it - Prothonotary warbler. It is named this because "Its common name refers to Catholic notaries privileged to wear golden hoods."

Take a peek: http://web1.audubon.org/science/species/watchlist/profile.php?speciesCode=prowar

Reply by James Dawson on 9/1/10 2:58pm
Msg #351225

I thought you were gonna say the "middlefingerpointoeuppercus" LOL

Reply by Shoshana/AZ on 9/1/10 3:16pm
Msg #351226

Thanks for the laugh James.

I needed that today.

Reply by MW/VA on 9/1/10 4:44pm
Msg #351234

ROLF. Thanks James. LOL n/m

Reply by oldhippie_IL on 9/1/10 3:44pm
Msg #351229

OMG!! James, what a nucklehead! lol n/m

Reply by MW/VA on 9/1/10 4:43pm
Msg #351233

What? You mean we all don't get to wear golden hoods? LOL

Reply by Susan Fischer on 9/1/10 4:49pm
Msg #351235

Gorgeous little birdie - thanks. (and a good funnie, James) n/m

Reply by Stamper_WI on 9/1/10 6:40pm
Msg #351242

Re: Gorgeous little birdie - thanks. (and a good funnie, James)

It looks a lot like a goldfinch! Since I am at the northern edge of it's range, I am not so sure I would notice it as something from the goldfinch.

Reply by Susan Fischer on 9/2/10 1:30pm
Msg #351324

We have *teensy* yellow birdies here, very fast, very

chatty, and very adamant about their 'private' bird feeders - they gang up on the big Blue Jays, who are total brutes and seed-hogs as everyone knows, and as long as there are dozens of them, the Jays don't risk their little wraths.