Bird Watching: DAILY PICS VOL.178, 1 by linthicum

linthicum wrote:
Nice Red-bellied Woodpecker photo, pelle.

Also, nice photo of the Ring-necked Pheasant, wallaby. I must confess that when I was young I thoroughly enjoyed hunting pheasants. Forty-plus years later it is sad to say that I can't tell you when I saw my last Ring-neck. Although some will perceive hunting as a reason for their demise, their survival is a lot more complicated than that. Their habitat is gone. Bounties on their main predators no longer exist and clubs no longer raise the stock that they did years ago. They are truly a beautiful bird and I miss them.

Anyway, here is another photo of a Bald Eagle I took Sunday at Blackwater Wildlife Refuge on the eastern shore of Maryland.