DAILY PICS - Vol. 294

Hairy Woodpecker. Tried hard to get a downy along with him, but they did not cooperate.

And a female Red-bellied woodpecker.

Sacar, Sweet Bluebird!

Nanny, Love the Brown Creeper!

Duc, Handsome Brewers!

Marna, Nice job on the shots, love the Eagle and American Tree Sparrow!

Mrs Ed, glad you're seeing so many eagles. It does look like that juv has lost a feather or two. The way the young ones charge at each other in flight, I'm not surprised to see that. Great photos, love that red-bellied!!

Cool that you got to see some eagles Mrs. Ed!

Boy that male Brewer's sure does look like a grackle!

So far no squirrels have run off with any suet. Chewed up a few feeders tho and I have these little thingys I put on them so they can't open the suet cages.

I had hoped to go down by the dam today but it is still feeling pretty cold. It is supposed to be up around 50 the next few days!! The snow is almost all gone now. YAY!!!!! I hadn't seen my grass in 3 weeks.

A Tufted Titmouse

Good shots all!! I have trouble keeping up with you people you post so often!

Red-winged blackbird from a couple of weeks ago.

One of my reg. Steller's Jays

Caught this Steller's Jay yesterday just as it turned to take off.

Snow is really coming down now....boo!!!

Male bluebird surveying the situation:

Sharing nicely......

Best I could get of one the Blur...er Blue Birds around the house today....LOL

pelletory - Quote, "Hack, Love the collages, Double-crested Cormorants and Coot!" Thank you

gardenpom - wonderful snap of the Ibis overhead! And Buntings in the feeder are great. And the Cowbird, your last pic, sure has a nice contrasting brown head.

VA_Wild_Rose - Quote, "Hack... love the photo of the cormorants." Thank you.

Burd_Fotos - Quote, "Hack, nice shots from Cooper Creek!!" Thank you. And many thanks for confirming the ID of my Lifer hawk on the ID forum, I'll post it here later. And that's a great snap of Mr. Cooper.

Resin - Quote, "Yep, juvs." Thanks for confirming. I had read that about the lighter colored Cormorants in one of my books.

sacarvounis - Quote, "Hack...love all of the water birds. Looks like that CG was thinking about charging you!" Lord, sacar, I hope not, have to mortgage the house. I'm hoping to see some BB this year - I wasn't birding last year at this time. I'm thinking about getting some dried mealworms and making some peanut butter suet with them in it. Thank that may attract some BB.

reddirtretiree - I like that Eurasian Ring-necked Dove. It would have been a Lifer for me.

nanny_56 - love the snap of the Brown Creeper eating suet. It, too, would have been a Lifer for me

ducbucln - it must be a California bird, because if I had seen that last pic, the male Brewers Blackbird, with the vivid yellow eyes, I surely would have thought it was a Common Grackle..

Mrs_Ed - FIVE bald eagles - I envy you. And that male Hairy WP and female Red-bellied WP are real nice shots.

mcash70 - I really like the photos Steller's Jays. Nice

Hack

Finally, get me a pic of a Hawk. Over on the ID Forum, Burd_Photos confirmed my thought that it was a Red-tailed Hawk (immature). MargaretK made sense when she said it looked to be preening it's feathers after a bird. That made sense because, it caught my attention when it flew up to the limb from an area of flooding at Cooper Creek Park. It was watching a bunch of Mallards right below it, but it never went after one.

Here's my Lifer Hawk - an immature Red-tailed Hawk. I took a ton of pix and made several collages, 3 pix to a collage.

Hack

Collage #2

Hack

Collage #3

Hack

And for my last shot, my Hawk Lifer, I thought it was about to attack the mallards below, but it just stayed put. When it finally flew off, it went to the other side on the park. I didn't pursue it.

Hack

Great hawk pics Hack!!

I'll have to learn how to do a collage, I like that!!

Margaret

Congrats Hack on the Hawk!! It is a purdy one!


Hey...I got a PAIR of Brown Creepers this afternoon!!

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Resin, It is a Eurasian Collared-dove. I must have been looking at too many Ring-necked Ducks recently. Fairly common around here. Not many days I don't see a few.

Great pics everyone!!

Here's a series of the Canadian Geese

2nd shot

3rd shot

4th shot...oops duplicate

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5th shot

last shot

Wonderful pics of the Canada Geese Methodical.

well...just one more

Thanks Mcash

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Methodical....beautiful shots of the CG! I esp. like the shot of one blowing bubbles!

Hack....love the hawk shots. I see red taileds from time to time but I never get any decent photos if them.

Nanny...I usually see brown creepers in pairs when I see them.....lucky you!!

It is snow/hailing with a howling wind tonight. I am worried about my feathered friends :(

Great shots Met! The second one looks like she is crying and I love the blowing bubbles one! Terrific shots!

Testing:-)

mcash70 - Quote, "Great hawk pics Hack!!" Thanks, And making collages are a lot of fun to me - sure beats posting a bunch of pics separately. Only down side is that a single pic is larger and may be more thrilling.

nanny_56 - Quote, "Congrats Hack on the Hawk!! It is a purdy one!" Thanks. That pair of Brown Creepers sure do blend in well.

pelletory - Quote, "Great pics everyone!!". Thank you.

Methodical - like pelle said, the goose in the 2nd shot does appear to be shedding tears. Cool.

sacarvounis - Quote, "Hack...love the hawk shots." Thanks. This is the first hawk of any kind I've ever had the chance to photograph - come to think of it, I haven't seen too many, either. I do have one here at the house that has been teasing me. I seen it occasionally, but never when I have my camera. But one of these days, its all going to come together.

Hack

Nanny, hope it continues to warm up for you. Congrats on the pair of creepers.

Mcash, great shot of the stellar!!

Hack, your hawk collages are some of your best shots! Great job.

Met, spectacular photos!! They need to be framed!


Our Bald Eagles seem to be here more and more each day.

I timed this one on the tree yesterday. It stayed there for 65 minutes before it took off. I started out waiting to snap the "take off" shots and gave up after 15 minutes. Then when it did take flight, the camera was too far away from me.

While watching for an eagle to come by, I snapped photos from the upper deck of a Calif. Towhee enjoying a bath below in the yard.

It looked up at me and then continued on with the bathing.

Our new pup, Maggie, watched the bird bathing and decided that was enough. She ran downstairs to chase it off, but the bird beat heard her coming and took off. Maggie looked up at me as if to say "where'd it go".

Handsome eagle duc! Our little dog chases the doves...cheap entertainment! lol

I pretty good shot(for me that is!) of a Carolina Chickadee!