Can anyone ID this bird? (1 Viewer)

[Jay H]

This was taking in the Farny Highlands in NJ from a hawk observatory:



It's kind of fuzzy cause I was using a digital zoom with no tripod...

here's a analog zoom shot of the same bird:



Anybody know? It's quite pretty!

Jay

 

[Andrew Pratt]

My first guess would be an Indigo Bunting but that bird looks a little larger then a bunting...approx how large was it?

 

[MarkHastings]

Possibly a Mountain Bluebird?
http://www.soaringeagle.org/center/sanctuary.html

 

[John Watson]

Is it a Norwegian Blue?

 

[Andrew Pratt]

Mark I wondered about the bluebrid too but its beak appears lighter then the bluebirds

 

[Joey Skinner]

It appears to be pining for the fjords.

 

[Jay H]

From my distance, I think about 40feet, it appears to be fairly tiny, much like a small canary sized. The black area around the eyes makes it look almost like a cardinal, except blue!

Jay

 

[Philip_G]

that's a blue breasted fifo. The live in the northeast us and canada. *


















*I don't know anything about birds.

 

[Andy Anderson]

Beautiful plumage.

 

[Kevin T]

dinner?

 

[CharlesD]

was it nailed to the branch?

Looks like a bluebird to me what with it being a blue colored bird and all.

It is not a Mountain Bluebird based on its location however, and the Eastern Bluebird has a red breast so I think Andrew Pratt's answer (Indigo Bunting) is probably correct.

 

[Glenn Overholt]

Kevin, that was great! My answer is - lost?

Glenn

 

[Jay H]

Yup, I from that link, it does look like it is an "indigo bunting"

Thanks!
Jay