Bird Watching: Daily Pics Volume 160, 1 by Elphaba

Elphaba wrote:
Squirrels are just nuts! Mine are so fat this year that they are falling out of the trees. They have lots of injuries too. I'm not sure if that is from falling so much or if hawks are trying to pick them up, but they are just too fat. One is blind in one eye; one had a huge infected cut on its cheek, and one is holding up one of its legs. All are just obese. Never seen them so fat.

Great pics everyone. Methodical, those robin shots in the berries are stunners and I just love any shot of a flicker! Burn, love the goldfinches! GP, hope those buntings stay at your house. I understand that sometimes when they migrate to Mexico, they are captured and sold as pets.

This picture is pretty horrible, but it's a new bird for me!!! Whoohoo!!! A tan morph of the White-throated Sparrow.

Hey Nanny, when you got me counting the birds I'd marked in my book, I was just over 100. I almost challenged you to a race to 150! That would be madness though, sheer madness! I'd be taking pics of grackles and sparrows all day long! I have them marked differently though for ones that I've seen in my backyard and birds that I've seen everywhere else. 73 birds in the backyard and 33 in other places. I'm pretty amazed by my backyard number considering I have a normal urban backyard that is only six miles from downtown.