DAILY PICS VOLUME 328

And our best lady Red-bellied Woodpecker...

These are just a few from Saturday while I was down at the beach that I found to be kind of cute.

Robin with a fine catch

Mourning Doves

....last one is a rotten egg!

Common Grackle

Checking out the surf.....

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Purple Martins


Lets go this way.....

Very nice shots Nanny!!

Great shots Nanny. The Purple Martins are really neat!

Your welcome Hack.
Thanks for the comments Pelle ,Duc, and Nanny. LOL on your beach birds, Nanny. Too cute.
Missy, that looks like a nasty lumps on Dove, hope it`s nothing serious.

A stretching Song Sparrow.

Here he is preening. He loves the roof of this bird house.

Cute beach shots Nanny. Like the way the Robin and Grackle seem to be "marching" along

BlueJay eggs!

Nice shots all!! Another fledge...Robin this time.

Well, I took some "distance" pics with my 400mm and then cropped the crap out of them.

Here's how they look:
This Carolina Chickadee stayed still just long enough.

Hack

I sure like the beauty of this female Cardinal.

Hack

This male Cardinal wouldn't turn around.

Hack

This Gray Catbird is partial to this particular suet feeder.

Hack

Snapped this female House Finch.

Hack

This is my last one for tonight.

Over on the left is daddy House Sparrow. His brood kept following him around, pecking the ground here he did. But, at least they weren't following him around with their mouths wide open.

Hack

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Burn, Cute Song Sparrow!

Venu, Nice shot of the eggs!

Burd, That is a young one. Nice shot!

Hack, Nice shots,like that Catbird!

burd that robin is so puffy and cute.

Nanny and Hack you all are having such variety! Nice.

Splish-splashy Robin

Nanny great pictures, especially of the Red-bellied pair. Enjoyed the action on that Robin. The Grackle, P. Martins and Doves look like they're enjoying themselves.

Burn, great catchs on your Song Sparrow.

Venu, that nest sure looks strong. Glad we may get to see more babies later on.

Hack, that new lens is a beauty. Your pictures are great, especially the Chickadee!

Mrs Ed, love your splishy-splashy picture!

Here's one of my many Scrub Jays.

Several juvie House Sparrows landed on the deck railing and were checking it out.

This one was trying to break off a piece of the branch-silly bird, that's Manzanita and very hard wood.

I feel so bad for my Tree Swallows. We took the houses down and now they just sit around.

They just don't understand that our house is going to be painted soon and we can't let them start another nest.

WOW...those are good!!

Mrs. Ed, love your splish-splashy Robin.

Awwwwwwwwww Duc, how can you resist the face that swallow?? LOL

Mrs Ed, Love the Robin!

Duc, Excellent shots. I agree, those faces of the Tree Swallows would be enough to make me send the painters away till Fall, lol.

agree with the cuteness. Go away painters!!!

My female Hairy Woodpecker brought one of her juveniles in to feed. Here are a few photos of this sweetie pie. Isn't she/he adorable?

she/he has blue eyes right now.

Here is a terrible picture of them together on the maple tree at the very back of the yard,

Awww, Pelle, what an adorable baby. That look of innocence in the first photo is so sweet. You did a great job with the photos.

Thanks duc, I was so happy to see the little one. :-)

OMG. too cute.

I been enjoying eveyone's photos. Pelle the first pic of your little Woodpecker is so beautiful.

I've been going to the ospreys nest nearly every day. Either Dad, Big Hook (or both) are frequently on the nest now, just standing around, preening and showing signs that the season will be starting before too long.

There are a couple of Rainbow Lorikeets that are also showing signs of wanting to occupy the nest and can be seen moving in and around the bottom part of the nest. They were there again yesterday.

One of them was jumping around on the perimeter of the nest whilst the other one remained on one of the branches. As always, they were making a racket and acting very cocky. Shortly after I snapped this photo, they took off like rockets, screeching in alarm.

... as Big Hook cruised by. She didn't land on the nest, but did a couple of passes and was gone.

Awwwwwww Pelle, that baby woodpecker is so darned cute! Love that first shot, fantastic!

Love the Lorikeets Margaret. So beautiful!

Oh pelle...that first one is tooooo cuuute! Adorable!

Mrs.Ed... I just love that robin in your pond....I wish I had one for all the robins I have this year!

Mrs_Ed - I can tell you, Robins sure know how to get the most out of a bath.

ducbucln - on the baby HOSP trying to break off a piece of the branch - maybe its teething. :-)

pelletory - like everyone said, that juvenile Hairy Woodpecker in your first pic is absolutely adorable. You reckon it is a male, what with that red on its head?

MargaretK - those Rainbow Lorikeets are so pretty, but aren't they taking their lives to the edge by fooling around with the osprey nest?

Hack