#284 new daily pix

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I don't have a good picture to post with it but here's the new thread. The dozens of robins have gone back in the woods on this beautiful clear day, not one to be seen. The dozens of birds that were eating nonstop yesterday have slowed down too; maybe others got out to refill their feeders today. My standard fare of safflower and thistle and pure suet draws a standard fare of mourning doves, goldfinches,juncos, white throated sp,downy WP, chickadees, titmice, a few english Sp and house finches. Yesterday the mockingbird, carolina wren and the bluejay came by to say hi. Oh, of course grackles, redwing BBs and few starlings.


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Thanks for the new thread sallyg, it has been overcasted here....This red shouldered hawk (?) was patiently hunting for critters below with its mate nearby.

Nice hawk photo, Lily .......

This is one of my backyard Northern Cardinals. I seem to only have one or two pair.

They're so pretty in the snow. I have a couple- 3 pairs normally, but yesterday counted a solid dozen males all feeding here.

They do photograph well in the snow.

Here he is at one of the platform feeders I put out this morning .........

I have quite a few Blue Jays, though. All I need to do is put out a handful of peanuts. The word gets around real quick.

That last thread ended so quickly that I didn't get to comment on everyones photos-wonderful, all of them!

Sally, thanks for the new start. Sorry your birds aren't cooperating with you. Hope you'll get some photos soon, it sounds like a wonderful variety.

Charlie, your cardinal photos are spectacular as always. That red/orange coloring does pop out in both of them.

We had a mixture of rain and sun yesterday.

Beautiful Jay too!

I seem to have lots of Dark eyed Juncos lately.

This is my favorite one.

Nice photos everyone!

Charlie... glad to see you can still take some gorgeous photos after shoveling all that snow! LOL!

Great job Sally. Thank you!

Lily, Does look like a Red-shouldered Hawk.

Linth, Beautiful Cardinal shots!

Beautiful Junco Duc!

Here's one from last weekend on the Mississippi River in the SE corner of Iowa.. our beautiful national bird.. the Bald Eagle :)


I love Cardinals and Blue Jays.. and Duc, I agree with your favorite picture, that was well done!

Aren't the hawks wonderful? I love looking at them :)

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Nice one Clan!!

I love all the raptors!

Thanks for the new thread sallyg. Nice juncos duc!

Goldfinch starting to show some of it's summer colors!

A few more on the feeder. These are from last week...I think!

Thanks Pelle for the RS hawk confirmation. Love those Jucos Duc. Love the goldfinches Nan. Chris the eagle is grand. Cardinals coloring is so vibrant agaisnt the snow, Linth. I like those Blue Jays too.

Here's my little homeless Red-Bellied Woodpecker.

Here are two pics of the Woodpeckers tree, final cut down on second pic. I have seen the Woodpeckers heading off in another direction towards other large Oaks in the neighborhood.

Osprey flying over. Tried to stay out for a while, but the sun would not come out and it was too chilly.

Nice Goldfinch pics nanny! Wish I saw more here.

GP, I hope they use that one of find another on close by.

I was admiring a huge dead tree near here, fine woodpecker place with holes. A recent storm tore off big hunks of bark and it is MUCH more rotten inside than I would have guessed. I'm curious to see if it survived this snow load. gives me more respect (fear) of dead trees.

That's true sally. We used to have a very tall tree belonging to our neighbor that sat right at our fence. It was obvious that if it ever fell it would come squarely down on our house. We never said anything to the neighbor but it was almost as if he read our minds and had the tree taken down shortly after.

It is sad to see the big ones taken down though. I always wonder what birds might have called it home.

If I had a tree like that, I'd leave the big stump I think. Good for birds and could run vines up it.

I don't have a great zoom function on my digital so this is the best pic of this I could get.
Woodpecker??? Can anybody tell?

yah. flicker.

Agree with Mrs Ed, Northern Flicker.

Cool!!! Thanks for the id.

Sally, thanks for the new thread. Looking forward for some of your pics.
Lily you get the Red Shoulder and I get the Cooper's. Aren't we the good host !!
Linth, It's to bad you ran out of snow, to finish off that snow motel. Think of all the company you would have got. ;)Your Cardinals are so lovely with the snow.
Duc , I agree the third one is awesome.
Nanny, do you think, the color change in the Goldfinch is a sign of an early Spring? I sure wish so. Nice shots.
GP, it's so sad to see a host tree go. Hope you try the box. They're pretty birds.
Flowerjen , nice that you get to see the flicker. I've only seen them twice here, and only for a fleeting moment.

I really think this Cooper's Hawk thought he could fool me, by hidding behind all those branches.

A Hungry Chickadee.

A little Downy up on the branch.

Here he is!

Nice ones burn! Love the fluffy Chickadee.

sallyg - thanks for starting the new thread.

Lily_love - nice pic of the hawk, I still looking for one to photograph.

linthicum - that male Cardinal at your feeder is about as red as I've ever seen - great capture

ducbucln - that second Dark-eyed Junco, your favorite one, should be in a book somewhere.

ClanCampbell - I like the look of your soaring Bald Eagle.

nanny_56 - nice collection of Goldfinches.

gardenpom - your little homeless Red-Bellied Woodpecker is pretty. He'll find a new home.

Mrs_Ed - I'd leave the big stump, too, but would not let any vines grow up it. My family runs a tree service here and vine covered tree often are home of 100's (one I remember may have had 1,000's) of cockroaches. We used our bucket trucks to strip away the vines and, man, you ain't lived until you're joined by a bunches of roaches in the bucket.

burn_2007 - A hungry Chickadee is a familiar sight around my feeders. Nice pic.

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I took a few pics today.

Here are a couple of Brown-headed Nuthatches on a feeder. It appears they are trying to check each other out.

After posting, I realized what follows is the wrong pic.

Hack


This message was edited Feb 8, 2010 12:49 AM

Wrong pic in previous post. Lets try it again.

Here are, I think, two different male Eastern Towhees feeding on the ground.

Hack

I saw a fluff of orange way up in my neighbor's tree and had to use the manual focus on the Bigmos to look through the branches to get it. It was an American Robin. Maybe Spring is right around the corner.

Here's a composite of 4 of my best shots of it.

Hack

Like burn_2007, I have some hungry Chickadees, too.

Hack

Nice shots Hack!

The male Eastern Towhee's are so handsome!

That huge Oak is so large, it has actually grown through and devoured a chain link fence! It would cost a fortune to get it out, or even grind it down, so I'm sure it will allowed to "come back" as well as it can, so that is good. I'll try and get a picture of it when I can. I'm sure the male Woodpecker is out looking for "For Rent" signs every day, looking for just the perfect home to raise his next brood.

Fewer birds than usual on the feeder over the wkend as it was time for the Mass audubon bird count. High winds & someone told them that this was a counting weekend. Plus for 2nd yr, no goldfinchs. We used to have plenty. Are they staying further north for the winter?