We came from here. http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1034219/
Everyone is looking forward to seeing everyone else's birds from near and far. Here's a shot of Dad Osprey coming in for a landing a few days ago.
Nanny, we cross posted. How about re-posting your Bluebird pic from the last thread so it's not missed?
Really nice shot Margaret! He is so handsome.
Thanks for starting the new thread!
Look at those talons! Reminds me of the claw foot furniture legs. Gorgeous guy.
A cute female downy eying the suet feeder.
This (juvie?) housewren has been hanging out in the butterfly garden. Probably eating my monarch caterpillars!!!
Today I had a bunch of birds around my feeders, lots of house finches and sparrows, Cardinals, one Tufted Titmice, and couple of Blue Jays, one Eastern Towhee (female), to name a few.
Here's one of my digi-pics - a male house sparrow. 26 yds distant.
Hack
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Margaret, very nice photo of the Osprey.
Mrs Ed, you do be careful climbing up that tree to put out suet ! Nice Downy.
Good digi-pic of the sparrow, Hack.
Well, in my lifetime, I have come across a lot of human cuckoos but, on Sunday, I got a photo of my first bird cuckoo ..... a 'Yellow-billed Cuckoo'. I had to be lucky this time of the year because they will migrating to South America soon. I heard them all summer long but never saw one until yesterday.
A 'Great Blue Heron' photographed today ........
I took a lot of photos today of this attractive 'Green Heron'.
One more of the 'Green Heron' feasting on a tadpole.
Great shot of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo linthicum! I keep hoping to get one myself, but no luck so far.
Some Goldfinches on my thistle sock.........
Wow those goldfinches really are starting to change colors. Up here too.
Okay Linth, I KNEW someone would call me on the Downy and suet feeder. I was pretty sure it would be Margaret though! LOL.
Turns out the picture in the best focus was when she looked UP!
linth, your pics are fantastic!
Hack
Sweet pic of the beautiful Downy mrs Ed! tsk tsk on the juvie House Wren.
Nice pic and variety Hack!
Linth, Beautiful shots! Love the Cuckoo and Green Heron!
Jay, So good to have all the Goldfinch. Nice shot!
Excellent pics Linth. ALL of them!
Here are a few bluebirds enjoying the water in the sundial this afternoon.
You all need to slow down!!! Great shot Margaret!!
I hope to get me a cuckoo someday.....beautiful herons too!
Had hoped to get out and about this morning looking for warblers, but it is very overcast and foggy still. Maybe later it will clear up.
Okay repeating the Blue Bird Juvie for any that missed it...LOL!
Nice pics Dave and Nanny!
I must have a hawk lurking nearby; no birds at all in my yard.
Can anyone ID these geese? Migration is on! Sorry about the pic quality.
Hi Ma, Their Double-crested Cormorants. (not geese)
Here is a page on them.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Double-crested_Cormorant/id
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Yikes! Thanks for the ID but maybe not something to be happy about! No wonder the fishing is so bad.
Nice shots everyone!!
Thanks Linth. I know what you mean about the human cuckoos. Your shots are brilliant. I love the Green Heron.
LOL Mrs Ed.
Here's a Rainbow Lorikeet at the Osprey site yesterday.
Gorgeous shot Margaret!
I have got to get a better camera:) But, I just have to share my photo of a Vermilion Flycatcher. He stuck around for a long time, but never got close enough for my camera to get an excellent photo. I spotted this guy in an extremely rural setting in Hamlin, TX, an hour North of Abilene.
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Beautiful all.
Not much activity happening here. Although, I've had a few more birds today, compare to the other days.
I have seen the Flicker from far away.
Golden-fronted Woodpecker. I spotted this guy in an extremely rural setting in Hamlin, TX, an hour North of Abilene.
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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. I spotted this guy in an extremely rural setting in Hamlin, TX, an hour North of Abilene.
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wow missy! nice selection!
Missy, That is a nice selection! Your very lucky!
Burn, Love the Flicker!
I got to the marsh before sunup in time to see thousands of Great Egrets leaving to go to their personal water holes and streams.
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of course a few stayed to hunt at home.
I guess if one has a long neck it is best to have long legs to reach the itch.
The same with the Night Herons.
I think this Yellow-crowned Night-heron is the same one that I photographed as a juvenile and then as a first spring.
I did not see very many Green Herons today.
There was the usual scattering of Great Blue Herons.
Great Blues are usually so bossy that they don't share their roost. I was surprised to see one in a tree with a couple of Black Vultures.
Shortly after the last photo another Great Blue flew up and chased the vultures away.
The main reason I go to this marsh area is to check on the Purple Gallinules.
I had been worried about how the gallinules had faired this year. During the main nesting season there was seismic testing for CO2 gas. The testing company had placed charges right through the middle of the marsh. I was there right before they blasted and the airboats had been all through the grasses. I wondered how many nest had been destroyed. I guess some birds must have renested late because some very young birds were present today.
