DAILY BIRD PICS VOL. 398

Both male Orioles

These Calif. Quail haven't been missing any meals.

Wow! What a great start Charlie! Your Common Yellowthroat and Prairie Warbler shot are so beautiful! I wish your wife all the best and a speedy recovery... and she needs to kick YOU in the knee for that comment! LOL!

Burn... love your Purple Finch and B. Waxwing... two birds I have yet to see!

Huggergirl... beautiful Rose-breasted Grosbeak! Also a pretty Oriole! Two more I want to see!

Mrs_Ed.... very nice B. Oriole!

Lily... congrats on your Great-crested Flycatcher!

Adelbertcat.... gorgeous Steller's Jay! I love their faces! Your Quail is pretty too!

I spent three days in the woods and by the river last week for my birthday, and I got lots of pics! Some new birds and some old.

I saw my very first Common Yellowthroat, but my photo is not as good as Linth's!

linthicum, great start with the Common Yellowthroat! OMG, you have a ton of birds that are Lifers for me. Oh, and those Eastern BB's and Yellow-breasted Chat are great, too. Beautiful bird variety!

burn_2007, I really liked your pix, but the male Purple Finch, Bohemian Waxwing are my favorites.

huggergirl - nice shot of the rosebreasted grosbeak sharing a stump with the Chipping Sparrow.

Lily_love - nice oriole. I've only seen one, an Orchard, in all the time I've been birding.

adelbertcat - that Stellar jay was SWEET. But those Orioles are gorgeous.

Hack

I finally got some nice images of the RWBBs...

Here is the female...

These Mallard ducklings were just hooking it across the water!
I called it, "Last on there is a rotten egg!"

Reflections...

One of my male Green Herons saying,
"Now where do you think she wants me to build the nest???"

"Do you think she wants it up here???"

The shad run is almost over, but the GBHs are still catching some fish.

I have a few.

Well, my 3 Chickadees have fledged. Here is a pic I got by poking my key chain camera in the "door".

Hack

Concentration...

Sorry we're cross-posting Hack!

A Greater Yellowlegs

Snowy Egret...

And one more of my female Osprey coming in for a landing...

Just adds variety, Rose

Mockingbird at the Suet.

White-throated Sparrow

Nice looking male Downy Wp.

My last one for now. One of my newer finds. A Pine Siskin.

Hack

That's a real nice close-up of the Downy Hack!
Beautiful Pine Siskin too!

Thanks Rose, I found one more I'd like to share - a Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler.

Hack

Gadzooks!! What a thread. A lovely, poetic start, Linth. Brilliant images, each and every one. Love the Mad-eyed Vireo.

Beautiful shots, Burn. The Waxwings are exquisite.

Tamara, I had no idea the Rosebreasted Grosbeaks were such substantial birds. Just look at it next to the little ?? (whatever it is).

Great shots of the GBH Wild Rose and of course, I adore the Osprey shot. Love the duckling race. So cute. Well done.

Good to see you again, Hack. Nice shots. The Myrtle Warbler is really gorgeous.

Lily_love and Mrs Ed, lovely Orioles.

Beautiful birds, adel. I'd love to see the Jays.

margaret,i think its a chipping sparrow,the Grosbeak is maybe getting fat ...LOL.. he is at the feeders all day long an he is not easily scared off,must have been a long flight home ....

Marna,i felt lucky that the oriole landed on the tulip ,made for a pretty shot.


thats a horrible photo...sorry

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HOLY SMOKES.......LINTH al I can say is WOW......Stunning!

They rest of you are smokin' too!! I want me an Orchard Oriole too!!


Hey Hack good to see you again....we were wondering were you had gone!!!

Nice to see you here too huggergirl!

Another after 7pm visit from a mature baltimore oriole. They are so beautiful.

Wow so many excellent shots!!

So glad your all seeing more migrating birds.

You all are seeing such colorful birds now. These threads are really flying by at lightning speed. Just caught the Swallow-tailed Kite again, some distance away, but still majestic.

Nice!

Snowy Egret at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor.

Would love to see a kite!!

Very pretty shot pelle!

Baltimore Oriole not looking so pretty!

Gray Catbird

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Earlier today I saw 6 Baltimore Orioles in the backyard. I got this photo of 2 males last week.

American Gold Finch with his "Beatles" Do!

I finally bought one of those easy clean finch feeders at WBU...LOVE IT!!!

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Nice ones nanny! That's great you have so many Orioles!

Gardenpom... that Kite is gorgeous!

Thanks, Rose....you can't even see the string. Ha!

Can't wait to see those Oriole you guys are posting. I doubt I'll ever see the Orchard, but I'm ready for the Baltimore.
Thanks for the nice comments.

Marna, i'm seeing green.lol

It's the first time, I see the female Red-winged blackbird in my yard. Had the males coming every year, but no female.