Today in my yard I saw a very small full breasted greyish bird with a thick bright yellow stripe ..?
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sounds like a warbler...but hard to tell from just this description, and not knowing where you live.  The two that pop into mind with that coloring could possibly be a Yellow-rumped Warbler, or Golden-winged Warbler. (maybe a female)\n\nhttp://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i6420id.html\nhttp://www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?allSpecies=y&searchText=Yellow-rumped+Warbler&curGroupID=1&lgfromWhere=&curPageNum=1
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I've heard of attacks by mockingbirds and bluejays and have seen both of these birds swoop on other potential predators such as cats. They only do it when they feel their nest (with eggs or nestlings) is threatened. The solution is just to stay away from the nest.
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You need to give a better description about the plant in general but... it sounds like you have Amelanchier Lamarkii (a popular ornamental).
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I sure do wish I knew where you were and what grows where you saw the bird.  The link below is to my "Bible" of birdwatching sites with a link to the Eastern Bluebird - male and female.\n\nSecond link is to some other nature source information you might want to check out.
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It must have been a migrating tundra or whistling swan-they have black beaks and brown/yellow from about the middle of the neck up, and a yellow spot just below the eye.
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There are several.\nhttp://birding.about.com/library/weekly/aa060797.htm
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This is sybil's first question. Try and give her a good answer.\nI'm sure someone out there has a good idea of what it could be.\nAnybody got a bird book? Cause now I really want to know too.
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I am NOT an ornithologist... but the 'red mask'; leads me to believe... it could be a 'Moorhen'?
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i think it was a chicken
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probably like any sea bird.. I know I live on the coast of an ocean and the birds poo is usually greenish/grey/with specks of white in it.. I guess depending on the fish or junk they ate prior to that..
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It sounds as though it could be a cabbage butterfly.\nThey have creamy white wings with a black dot on them.\nDo a Google search for cabbage butterfly, and then look at the images to see if that's what you mean.
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Something very similar happened to me two weeks ago.I found a dead bird on my front stoop.It didn't appear to be injured and it looked like it was asleep.But ,it wasn't.I'm not a superstitious person,so I don't know anything about that.I do know that a few years ago all of the crows in our area died as a resulty of west nile virus.I suspect the dead bird I found, might have been sick from something like that.
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its possible you caught a grayling,or a brook trout.I havent heard of the term either but sometimes names for fish are region specific.sorta like a nickname for the fish.
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The male bird is usually brighter color.
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I would call your local health department and alert them. If you pick up the birds use gloves and place them in some type of receptacle so they can be transported. I think in this day and age it would be helpful for you and the public.
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nothing, its just that its hatched by different kinds of chickens. that is it.thanks for the points!
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Cardinals, goldfinches (one of my favorites), house wrens, red-headed woodpeckers, downy woodpeckers, nuthatches (can't remember which ones), and lots of little rosy finches, mourning doves, and sparrows.\n\nInteresting side note: We have a pair of sharp-shinned hawks in our neighborhood that periodically come hunt at our feeder. I have twiced witnessed one of the hawks chase down a sparrow and catch it in mid-air. It is sad and i hate losing song birds, but it is a truly awesome sight to see this large bird nab a quick little sparrow out of mid air.