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    Default Kite ID

    A couple of kites (not swallow-tailed) have been circling the area around our house for at least a couple of weeks. We live near Florence. Any thoughts on whether these might be Mississippi kites? Other?
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    We really only get swallow-tailed and Mississippi kites.

    Here's a Mississippi...

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    Looks like the birds I'm seeing, except they don't appear to have the lighter color on their underbelly area as shown in your picture. Could just be the angle of the sunlight. I don't remember seeing them around here until recently. Thanks!
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    Learn their call and you will hear them everywhere, even over cities. I have a bluejay that mocks a kite call to scare birds away from the feeder before he moves in to eat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNM View Post
    Learn their call and you will hear them everywhere, even over cities. I have a bluejay that mocks a kite call to scare birds away from the feeder before he moves in to eat.
    That's really cool.
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    Mississippi kite
    Hunting outside the box

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    Saw a Texas flycatcher in Spartanburg last week. Pic I got sux
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    Quote Originally Posted by raybird View Post
    Saw a Texas flycatcher in Spartanburg last week. Pic I got sux
    I'll take some of what you've been smoking Ray bird!
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    Saw a swallow tail in Georgetown last week. Cool bird.

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    Go ahead raybird!
    So many of them once upon a time when I was living and working in Southwest Texas very cool bird very cool sighting for around here
    Last edited by Calibogue; 08-02-2019 at 01:51 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Calibogue View Post
    I'll take some of what you've been smoking Ray bird!
    Dude, I don't fuck around with my bird sightings, I almost got run over trying to take a pic . Kites are everywhere, Texas flycatcher and Garnett tanagers are special. Fro should be texting you a pic, I don't know how to post them
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    He did.....
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    Well hell... we wanna see.
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    Raybirds scissor tailed flycatcher..... Never heard of a SC sighting until now.... Very rare, very cool indeed!

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    Innerweb pic...

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    Quote Originally Posted by willk View Post
    That's really cool.
    I never knew blue jays would or had the ability to imitate other birds until I heard about it on a podcast back in the winter. Next time I got out of the truck, I heard a kite call when they would have been down south for the winter. I walked around the corner and watched a blue jay swoop down to the feeder. Started paying attention and I noticed it a lot more. Birds are cool.

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    Rock Hill, SC in May 2019...a pair raised three babies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rubberhead* View Post
    Rock Hill, SC in May 2019...a pair raised three babies.

    wow...
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    Quote Originally Posted by raybird View Post
    Dude, I don't fuck around with my bird sightings, I almost got run over trying to take a pic . Kites are everywhere, Texas flycatcher and Garnett tanagers are special. Fro should be texting you a pic, I don't know how to post them
    What the heck is a Garnett tanager....nothing comes up in google....I’ve seen scarlet and summer in sc....never herd of garnett
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