Daily Bird Pics, Vol 382

YAY.... A new bird today!!!

The bird on the left is the new one, a female American Wigeon. Still trying to ID the one on the right.

Congratulation Nanny. Love the pic with the Red-bellied WP.
Teddy, so great to hear, your new feeder is being used by the woodpecker. I'm sure the Chickadee will soon find it. it doesn't usually take very long, before they do.
Linth so nice to see all the nice variety you get. Thanks for your comment on the Bunting and Redpoll and that goes for everyone else who did too.
A female Hairy Woodpecker.

When should I get the no-melt suet cakes? Is it still cold enough that the other won't go bad? Since the snow is mostly gone, there are not many birds around now.

When it gets around 80 and above.

Cute one burn!

Congrats nanny!

Resins was finally able to ID my second duck as a drake Gadwall, which is another new one for me! It helped when I found this better shot.

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Downy showed up to be counted...

and so did the Hairy Woodpecker.

Dark-eyed Junco spotted on my walk.

FYI Alert!!

I have been hearing Sandhill Cranes the last couple of days and just spotted a group flying over!

A Bald Eagle from this afternoon.

Lots of great photo's everyone! It was cold at Pipe Creek today the wind was blowing around 30mph...but things are starting to pick-up now...have a few shots from today.
A Trumpeter Swan was present.

until the Mute Swan ran it off...

there are a lot of Mute's in the creek area...seen about 25 or so.

Tundra Swan's

of course there are a lot of Canada Geese..

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Redhead Duck's...pair

last shot...I count 7 different species here,
Gadwall
American Wigeon
American Coot
Redhead Duck
Canvasback Duck
Mallard
Double-crested Cormorant

also seen Bufflehead's, Ruddy Duck's, Ring-necked Duck's, Green-winged Teal, Northern Pintail's, Hooded Merganser's, Common Merganser's and Lesser Scaup's. Cold and rainy next couple of days...next trip will be Wednesday and hopefully no wind...lol

Wonderful shots, everyone.

From a few evenings ago - a very young Pink and Grey Galah.

Fantastic group shot Burd!!

Margaret, your Galah is beautiful!

Cold and raining here right now. So won't be going out today to look for birds.

I have not had birds to take pictures of, since the snow melted and its warmed up, they seem to have vanished. The Chickadees and Nuthatches have been around but so far not touched the new feeder. I took a walk yesterday and did not see any shots worth taking, I guess they have all left me. Gonna keep watching though.

A lucky shot at Mitch arriving to the feeder this morning. He's really shy, having seen me it has yet grabbed a bite.

Any advice on how to coax wp to the suet feeder? It is spitting snow here,one web page I went to said that you could put a bit of suet on top of the feeder to coax them.

Great photos everyone. I've gotten way behind again, but I'm enjoying every one of them.

It's pretty rare for us to have so much snow here, but this juvie Bald Eagle didn't seem to be minding it at all.

Here's a Mourning Dove and House Finch.

I've been watching this yellow-orange variant House Finch. It's eating more buds on the trees than red berries.

This Northern Flicker was enjoying the berries.

A Dark-eyed Junco watching the snow fall.

Garry, great Bald Eagle Shot. Love your Galah Margaret, Duc and Burd, wonderful shots!!! Love those various Swans, and the Finch variant is lovely!

I agree, great shots guys!

Duc, Love that Northern Flicker and Junco.

Wow , so many great shots, enjoyed everyone of them.
There is so many Redpolls constantly on the move, so it's hard to spot an Hoary among the crowd. But did manage to get one by itself today, under cloudy condition of course.

So any of you can spot "waldo" the Hoary in this bunch. He's in there. There's also a pine Sisken in the mix.

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Not the best photo, but a Pine Sisken in the north side of the house.

Yea!!! Hoary Redpoll ! Wonderful pics burn!

Beautiful shots duc...loving the flicker!

I'm with pelle...YAY HOARY!!!!

So sweet those Redpolls, love the flock just chowing down. Burn.

3 Canadian Geese lost there way ... this is north (side of the house), but not Northbound. lol These will probably wind up being some of our year-round residents.

Cold front blowing through. Temp is 36 and strong north winds. The finches are getting a ride on the seed tray.

Lily, The past few days the resident Canadas around here are pairing up and squabbling over territory around the ponds.

Hah! Red, I can almost 'picture' the finches swinging back and forth in the wind. :)
Speaking of pairing up here are a Mallards couple and their friends Pekin Ducks.

Great pictures everyone. Birds are very pretty. Unlike mine. Here's a really laid-back Turkey Vulture.

Here's another one of the Turkey Vulture. He just sat for a long time. I've never seen one do that before. He seemed to be looking for something.