Daily Bird Pics Vol. 371

Same setup snapped this female Downy.

Man, I haven't seen a Mourning dove in 2-3 weeks. Today I had a few.

My last one is a White-throated Sparrow. Long ways off, probably should have beamed it. I cranked it up to 1/2000 and the 5.6 in the viewfinder was flashing, but I snapped it anyway. Used PSE 7 to lighten it up.

Hack

This message was edited Jan 10, 2011 6:59 PM

Like I said, I'm starting the new thread.

I'll be back later to see if we're at 135.

Hack

This message was edited Jan 11, 2011 2:24 AM

This little guy left when the snow did, thankfully he is back.

I am a bit surprised I have had so few sparrows(beside HOSP) in the yard so far this winter. So I am enjoying seeing their pics here!

Looks like you are improving Teddy!

I was happy to see the pileated out on the tree this morning. Will have to check the pics on the camera later.

Preparing for the snow coming. They have us in the 4-7 inches range for now. We live a bit out so sometimes we get more and have lots of farm fields in our area so lots of blowing snow to deal with. Picked up a cheap enclosed feeder & some sunflower hearts to put out tomorrow.

A video thread would be cool to add at some point! I have a few on Youtube now of the birds and the dog that are public.

Bad one thru the window of a Blue Jay.....I miss being able to have my ground dish inside the fence for the jays & crows!

Just walked thru the family room on the way to the coffee pot....out in the yard were 3 squirrels, 1 female piletaed, 2 female cardinals, 6 goldfinch, way too many juncos to count and a couple of housefinch! Oh, and 1 Song Sparrow!! lol

Loads of Junco's here too nanny. Different types of Junco too. Saw a Song Sparrow yesterday along with lots of House Finch, a family of Chickadees, some Titmice, Mourning Doves, a Blue Jay and 1 woodpecker (Downy or Hairy).

Nanny, Are you seeing your Junco's eat a lot of suet? Mine are chowing down on it and that makes me think they must be quite smart as opposed to just battling all the other birds for seed.

My White-throated Sparrows have been flying up onto the feeders to get seed too.

Yes I have noticed they do seem to be eating more suet this year! They clean up under the suet feeders and They are able to access the suet I have on the platform as well.

In past years I have had they ground dishes with seed available but don't this year. But they are cleaning up under the Safflower feeders too. In general, I don't seem to have as many of the birds that are ground feeders...yet anyways!

I have not seen any Juncos eating my suet cake, they sure like cleaning up under the thistleseed feeder, as this little fellow is doing. I have found out one secret of taking pictures, I relax and if I get a good photo, thats all good and well, but I don't stress anymore when I get a bad one. There were about 3 of them, but those little burgers are just like the Chickadees and Tufted Titmice. They are quick!

I will have you know, that I stood outside in the falling snow to get as close to the platform feeder as I could, the only reason I came back inside is that my camera battery went poof again. But I think I got a pretty good shot of this one. No zoom on this one, I got that close!

Very cute Teddy!

I guess you can say I am obsessed with taking photos of birds, when my camera battery goes dead, I use my hubbys until I can use mine again! This one I had to use my hubbys, because she was too far away to use mine.

This guy was after the suet cake, so I was able to get him easily, he is so pretty.

The Carolina Wrens are pretty!

My male cardinal was back again, it looks like he was holding court with all those sparrows there.

Here he is with a few more of his subjects.

Looks like he might have some House Sparrows them with him.


***Hack will be starting the new thread soon***

Here is one of the reasons the birds don't stay around a lot, they tend to fly away quickly when this cat comes into range.

Yep that would do it!

Wow Nanny, looks like you have great numbers… Hope they stay there for the Backyard Bird count

Looks like Hack is unable to start the new thread so I'll be back with a link for the new one soon.

Hope Hack doesn't have issue with power outage. Winter storm down South just isn't fun at all. Thanks Pelle.

That might be the case.

Here is the link to the NEW THREAD http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1149058/