Daily Pics Vol. 273

Here's the new thread.

We just came from: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1066950/

Here's one of my "newbees", a Pine Warbler

Hack

Hack and I are cross-posting! Thanks for the new thread!

Here's the red-bellied woodpecker again...

Female Downy WP hanging around.

Hack

What kind of woodpecker is this?

Answered: Yellow-bellied sapsucker


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A mockingbird...

A second male downy for us...

Cardinal...

Titmouse... create a caption...
"I know there's a peanut in there somewhere!"

VA_Wild_Rose - Sorry we're playing the cross-post game. Pelle asked me to start the new thread when the old one hit 135 posts. I was a little late, it hit 141 posts before I knew it.

BTW, that is a real nice look at the Red-bellied WP.

Hack

Thanks! We are just learning the names of some of our new friends!
I am anxious to know what the other woodpecker is!

Never mind.

Hack


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That looks like a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker VA. Nice pics guys!

Hack, Thanks for starting the new thread!

I think pelle is right. You can look at the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker here:

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-bellied_Sapsucker/id

Hack

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I was looking at linthicum's photo in the bird files, and was thinking the yellow-bellied lok more like it.

Thanks guys! We had no idea! Now we do!

Pelle, great shot of the warbler through the window! That blue sky sure looks good.
Wild Rose, wonderful shots of the nuthatch and wp!

Hack, thanks for starting the new thread. Your Pine Warbler is beautiful!! Great one of the Downy too!!
Wild Rose, what a beautiful sapsucker. Hope you are able to get more photos of that one. You have a great variety of birds. That last one of the timouse is cute!

Well... he's a looker!

He sure is! They use thousands of tree's. I think I've only seen them here 3 times. Yes yours is a male. Congratulations.

Congrats on your Pine Warbler Hack!

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Resin.....Thanks for the correction on the Cassin's Finch I posted on the last thread. There were other Finch in the area that I thought were House Finch, but they didn't have the red backs like this one. My book only shows the Cassin's and Purple Finch having red backs. My mistake. Here is a pic of one of the others in the same area.

I just love the color of a Pine Warbler, and I thought a Goldfinch was pretty.

Hack

Hack, your Pine Warbler is so pretty in your opeing shot!

Wild Rose great catch on the sapsucker!! I had one today too...I was on the phone and trying to take a photo at the same time AND it was snowing... so not a good one!

Here it is with a Downy Woodpecker at the suet.

I went outside and spied this Brown Thrasher. Hadn't seen one in a while.

Hack

I've been trying to get some in-flight shots. It was overcast today, so I couldn't use the real fast shutter speeds. But, I did catch this male House Sparrow in flight.

Hack

Speaking of woodpeckers…

Red-bellied woodpecker at the corn cob.

Success!

New one for me, and not common this far east, the Oregon variety of Dark-eyed junco.

and Rose, I have all your house finch up here!

Sorry about the orientation of the image. I had to twist to see out the window. Looks like I had a couple of cocktails first!

Mrs Ed, the second red bellied with the corn cob is just super! Nice pose, good color and great effect with the snow falling. Makes me cold to look at it.

That is a good one Mrs Ed; she's a pretty girl! Is the corn cob attached to the platform feeder?

Nanny, Nice pic of the Brown Thrasher!

Hack, Another good one of the Pine Warbler!

Thanks Dave,

Yes Pelle, that's stuck on a nail in the center of the platform.

hmmmm...that was Hack with the thrasher.....poor thing would freeze to death here right now. LOL! It is 6 dgrees right now and still droppin. YUCK! I did get the snowblower out and have the driveway cleared off for DH when he got home.

Cool Mrs. Ed, That is a neat surprise!!

Nice shot to start the new thread off with Hack! Nice shot of the B. Thrasher also.

VA_Wild_Rose, Nice shot of the Y-b Ss! You too Nanny! Would love to have one visit here.

Adel, every time I think I have caught a shot of a Purple Finch, (too many) its been a House Finch, then I read in my field guide, their not in my range during the winter. lol

Mrs_Ed, really like your success shot! We've gotten about 5 inches of new snow since 1pm.

Got a couple shots from Sheldon's Marsh today, it was one of those delete days. lol

Start off with an Am. Robin.

Another Robin

American Tree Sparrow

Went down by the beach, the lake was mostly open, dead calm water, but low light.

Eagles were around.

The lake had most of the same bird's as the Bay had.
Common Goldeneye

More Golden Eye's

Common Merganser's and Co.

Common Merg's