Daily Pics Vol. 273

Ring-necked Ducks with a Wood Duck. (upper part of pic)

A local said that the larger ducks shown here were Red Heads, but they look like Canvasbacks to me....What say you Resin?

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Beautiful!!!!!!

Here are some I took today. They are fuzzy. I took them through the window.
Oh well.

Here's a Gold finch at the bird bath

UGH!!!!! Can I take it back?

Here is a male house finch in the tree

Yeah , I'll take that one back too! :(

Mourning Dove at BB

Here is another one of the dove

Here's a sparrow at the BB

I was finally able to spend a few hours outside today and got several bird pics before another cold front moved in. Here are some Robins.....you see lots of them around right now.

Indigo Bunting.

Immature male Painted Bunting.

This Hawk showed lots' of interest in my yard, I thought for a minute I'd catch him swooping down, but he passed on over.

Just did catch this Osprey before he passed out of view.

Cute Goldfinch.

Female Red-Bellied Woodpecker waiting to come down to the suet.

Painted Buntings.

Indigo and Painted.

I just have a few more.....here is an Eastern Phoebe.

Indigo changing color.

Last pic, even deep in the shrubbery, you can spot the Painted Bunting male.

Claud... beautiful doves!

Gardenpom... I love the buntings! I wish we had them! So colorful!

Thank you Rose, At least they turned out. LOL!!! I have to check my settings.

Gardenpom, I'm in love the painted buntings. :)

Thanks, Rose and claudcat. The Buntings have been the highlight of this nasty winter. The only good thing about most of my shrubs getting killed back is that it will be easier to see the birds.

Wow, tons of great pics. It is supposed to be real cold tonight, 22 degrees - well, thats cold to this ole boy. The high tomorrow is 42, maybe I'll have some birds. I sat outside for a little while this afternoon and saw lots of House Sparrows, some White-throated Sparrows, several Cardinals, and one, maybe two, pine warblers.

It was real overcast, so I can't brag about the quality of the pics I took.

Here's one of the warblers.

Hack

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Off in the distance I spotted this guy on the ground where I had scattered some seed. The area in the upper left of the pic is ice. It hasn't thawed in days. As a matter of fact, I used my 4x4 Honda ATV to re-fill my feeders - the ice is so thick the ATV doesn't even crunch it. For you northerners, that is no big deal, but for southerner like me, it is.

Hack

Here is another picture where I cheated using PaintShopPro. The original only had two birds but I added four more. The pictures were taken yesterday when we had blue skies.

Here's one from this morning. Love the snowflakes in her face.

At times it was coming down so hard you could not focus.

If you look between the snowflakes there are some trees about 500 feet behind my house. Not a bird in sight.

But the adult male and female did come up to the deck in the midst of the heaviest snow and they sat perched near the feeder for more than 5 minutes, looking out into the snow. Every few seconds they would twist their heads to flip the snow out of their faces. The blur you see on the right is the female.

Great shots everyone!

Temp said -8 degrees this AM! Poor little birds are all puffed up!

Always a favorite on a cold, grey day!

Pileated Woodpecker

What a joy to see one of those!

Great shot of the Pileated!!

GP, nice ones of the buntings!

Beautiful BB's Dave!

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker again

And a male Downy Woodpecker...have had lots of Downy's this week due to the cold.

Got the Carolina Wren to come in closer yesterday!!

Nice shots all!! I want a Pileated! Been taking pictures just haven't gone through them, it been snowing last few days, and like Dave said hard to focus and get clear shots.

Same thing here...hard to get a good shot!

I love seeing all the Woodpeckers everyone is getting...we saw the Pileated today as we were finally able to get out and walk the dogs. DH is turning into a bird watcher of sorts and wants to get some "real" suet for them!! We also have a Hairy Woodpecker that has been hanging around for a few days. It's fun to watch him exploring all the different food available. DH says he is like a mad dog in a meat house...LOL!

Dave...those shots of the cold Bluebirds are heartwarming!

The sun is supposed to come out today...whippee!!

Thanks Resin.......the shape and the color of the bill made me think they were Canvasbacks.