DAILY BIRD PICS VOL. # 373

Nice pics GG, Elphaba and teddy!!

Duc, Love the shot of the Acorn Woodpecker and Quail!

Here you go teddy, the red belly.

Hack

Thanks pelle, burn, Va_Wild_Rose and Elphaba. I appreciate the compliments.

Va_Rose, that flicker looks pretty good to me.

Yep, teddy, its sad when a little critter passes on.

GG, nice shot of Pete and Gladys. He ought to offer her some suet. lol.

Elphaba, I've never heard of an Inca Dove. Nice.

ducbucln, great shots of the Yellow-rumped Warbler - love them.

Hack

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Here are some more from a few days ago.

Had a Brown-headed Nuthatch in the neighborhood.

Hack

I think these Chipping Sparrows are about the smallest birds I have.

One more of the Cooper's Hawk. I get excited whenever I see a hawk. I just don't see very many.

This female Downy Woodpecker is a regular.

Her buddy was here, too.

My last one for this series is a Great Blue Heron I spotted on the bank of Cooper Creek pond.

Hack

Which woodpecker is this, Downy, Hairy? I thought that it was a Downy, but I could be wrong. Waited and watched for the red-belly to show up and he never did. This one looks a little bigger to be a Downy. Help please.

Great shots Hack.

Most of the time Pete is not a gentleman. He chases Gladys away from the feeder. Then, after he is full, he takes some suet in his beak, hops to the top of the tree to see if she is waiting for him. Most times, she ignores his offering and goes down to the suet feeder.

I think this one was playing peek-a-boo!

About the best I ever get of a Dark-eyed Junco!

I had only 1 White-throated Sparrow show up during the snow this past week! Where the heck are they!! lol

I've been enjoying looking at everyone's pics from the sidelines. I haven't had anything to post, but managed to shoot a couple of honeyeaters this morning.

Singing Honeyeater.

New Holland Honeyeater

Nanny_56, I know where your white-throated sparrows are, they are over here with the rest of the sparrows, you can have them back anytime you want!

Margaret, those honeyeaters are amazing. Great photos.

Nanny, your junco shot is really cute. I love how he's checking out that other bird!

Hack, very cool nuthatch pic. I thought brown-headed nuthatches hung out at the very tops of the trees. Didn't know that they would even come to feeders.

Duc, LOVE the acorn woodpecker. The yellow-rumped is cute too and the quail always amaze me.

Hack, great shot of the red-bellied! Love that nuthatch! Such a great variety of birds!!

Nanny, love ms. cardinal and that junco shot is adorable.

Margaret cute honeyeaters, I love the colors on that New Holland!

His face is a little blurred, but this Red-tailed Hawk has been chasing my birds for two days now. After I took this photo, I watched a couple robins chasing it off.

I still have three Anna's hummers here, plus one young Rufous showed up a couple days ago. It filled up on juice and I haven't seen it since.

One of the robins enjoying a meal.

I always seem to find one robin that acts like the lookout to warn the others of any danger.

This lower one looks like it's an immature.

Found some starlings the other day.

new 1st for me, brown-headed cowbirds, many of them! Guess they like the new ground feeder, ran the squirrels off! When they came in my wife got scared as there were like 50 in the flock. Stayed for like 5 mins and off they went. Common Grackles and Starlings were with them of course.

He stops by often.

She patiently waits for him.

they love the fact that I mounted it on the tree, now the hanging suet feeder gets less action

Now hes coming more often

last one, thanks for lookin and great pics everyone!!! WOW!

Teddy, I will gladly take any White-Throated Sparrows you have...but keep the HOSP! lol
We usually have lots of them around in the winter so it is a bit strange they aren't here this year.

We ran into town and at one store they have little trees with berries on them and there were lots of robins feasting in the cold!

On the other hand we have more American Tree Sparrows than usual this year!

Almost had to much zoom for the Blue Jay being this close!

Mourning Dove & female Cardinal....

I don't know if fastening to the tree here would be such a good idea, the squirrels keep eyeing ours but we have it on a shepherds hook, so when they decide to jump on it, it is not steady enough for them and they jump off. If I could figure out a way that the squirrels would not eat it away from the woodpeckers, I would do it in a heartbeat, I love to watch the woodpeckers eat. Here is my guy, he came back today, actually I am not sure it is the same one, his red on his head is more than the other one or maybe just my imagination, but anyway he came back. If you have any suggestions on how to get this fellow to come more often I would appreciate all.

We have a good number of Eagles locally this year (I saw at least 6 today). I went out in 14 degree weather (that's -10c) to just snap a few off while on the way to the store. Horribly underexposed. I'll have to get serious one day (long underwear) and try to get it sorted out.

Great photos everyone. I love seeing all the different bird in various areas of the country.There has been a shrike here chasing the small birds, and probably catching his lunch.. there is still about 8-9inches of snow in the undisturbed areas, but have lost a lot since we've had temps in mid tp low 40's.

Donna

Great shots everyone. It is so amazing to see even in the cold snowy places.