DAILY PICS VOL. 274

Time for a new start. We came from http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1067702/ Hope you'll go back and check out all the photos there.



Here's a Golden crowned Sparrow to start us off.

Nice one!

Redwing on Cotoneaster frigidus berries (and snow!) . . .

Resin

Resin, that photo is just beautiful!!

Hack, sure sorry to cut off your beautiful photos. Hope everyone will take a look at them.

No problem ducbucln, It was time to start a new thread, besides, I'm still posting.

Hey, Resin, that Redwing is sweet. Is it snowing in the UK, all I thought it did over there is rain :) ?

Here's a Dark-eyed Junco posing for me.

Hack

He was a long ways away. I had my 2x converter on and found out is it difficult to manually focus on a dark bird in the shadows. He had just hopped out of the shadows when I went for it.

This was the best I could do on this male Eastern Towhee.

Hack

As usual, White-throated Sparrows were around.

Hack

I wonder if we should have started over with Daily Pics #1 when the new year started? Oh well, too late now.

Here's a Song Sparrow. Resin verified the ID for me.

That's it for now.

Hack

Yeah, we're having our worst winter for 28 years (possibly 47 years)*, snow on the ground for 3 weeks now. Yukk! Hard times for birds too, good that there's a nice berry crop for them

Resin

* Take a look at this NASA photo . . . http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/2010007-0107/GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.500m.jpg

I wonder how Brother Al explains this in light of his claims of "Global Warming"?

Hack

Duc.....love your Golden-crowned Sparrow. I hope someday to one of those.

Resin, your little Redwing is so cute...great shot with the snow & berries!

Good ones Hack!

My Carolina Wren again!

No political subjects please. :-)

Wonderful start Duc!

Resin, Great shot of the Redwing!

Bobby, Love the Eastern Towhee!

Nanny, Sweet Carolina Wren!

Great shots Everyone!!! Duc, nice shots and thanks for starting the new thread! Nice shots on the previous thread to all also!

Hack, I really like your Warbler, Thrasher, and Cardinal shots, they look really good!

Resin, nice shots of the Redwing! They look just like an American Robin except for the coloring.

Nanny, nice shot of your Carolina Wren! I finally heard one sing a few notes the other day at the Marsh.

I have a few shots to share... Today I had the most birds ever, to visit the feeder's.

Start off with the Black-capped Chickadee with a seed.

close-up, not that clear

Sweet ones Burd!!

I had about 30 Brown-headed Cowbirds show up today.

A female B-h Cb

Papa Downy, none of my Downy's like seed treat suet, or blueberry treat, so all I buy now is Nutty Delight, they love it, that's Elvis's favorite too.

Look's like this Junco wants the snow to hit him. lol

A House Sparrow getting the light from the snow.

House Finch

Cardinal

Here's the injured Grackle again, he broken off the left lower part of his bill, he must be in pain, after he eats he bites the snow and holds it in his mouth (numbs pain?), others do the same thing but I think they are getting their water that way.

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Mourning Dove

Female Cardinal

Lastly my new visitor today was this female Red-winged Blackbird, and she was very colorful in her own way.

Thx Pelle. One more of the female R-w Bb

Burd_Fotos - I've found that my Downys are partial to Peanut Delight Suet. I've never tried Nutty Delight - I don't even remember seeing any around here. Where do you buy your suet? I visit Walmart and Lowe's to get mine. Walmart is about $0.50 cheaper, though.

Hack

Hack, I go to the local Grainery, which also has a nice little store that has better but cheaper suet and bird food. I buy the suet by the dozen (cheaper per), same as the store's. The actual name is called Nutty Treat, I just read the package. It has a Downy right on the package.

Great shots everyone, I really like your Redwing also. It has a great background with the snow and berries.

I braved the cold this morning to get out for a hike. It was 3 degrees when we left and about 12 degrees when we got back. Nothing spectacular in the photos, but a couple nice shots.

We went to Starved Rock state park in north central IL. I'll start with a picture of starved rock and a game of "where's Baldo"

Here is about the best shot of the eagle, I could get.

Here was some Horned Larks I saw roadside. For some reason, the cold weather caused alot of issues with the camera. It was acting wierd most of the trip.

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Here is some Goldeneyes, saw several flocks of these around the river.

A cowbird, It had been a while since I had seen one of these.

Probably my favorite shot of the day. This titmouse was really interested in this material. I assummed it was a cobweb or similar. It was like watching a kid with bubble gum.

Nice shots chris8796! Ive never seen a Horned Lark, thanks for sharing!

Female cowbird

Bluebird...an instant before takeoff.

Song Sparrow