hSay's Phoebe
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Say's Phoebe
Sayornis saya
Map and range not to any scale.
Photo location - AZ
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Approximately 7 to 7 1/2 inches in length. Sort of a gray brown on back.
Darker on head and tail. Belly and under the tail coverts tawny.
Tawny is the color of tanned leather. Seen in dry open areas, perches on fence post and tops of bushes.
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This Say's Phoebe and I were in a very small room in an old abandon building
where it was feeding a newly fledged chick on the floor among much rubble.
I was sitting in the corner of the room not moving and the Phoebe did not seem to mind.
At one time it flew and lit on the floor so close to me my camera would not focus on it.
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That was sure a tasty bug ,mom.
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Ah, come-on now, just one more, please.
If I had been a week earlier I could have gotten images of nest feeding for you. However I consider my self extremely lucky to have been able to get these photos. A few minutes after leaving the building the parent bird coaxes the chick out into the open out of the building and into a bush, & then another bush & I soon lost track of them.
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01/31/06 Gilbert, Arizona Water Ranch
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