Daily Bird Pics Vol # 399

dellrose - great start and I absolutely agree - your Prothonotary Warble is gorgeous! Wow, you have some other neat looking birds, too.

Lily_love - have a BB box up, but no takers. Your BB is pretty. I wonder if it is gonna move in? AND nice shot of the Great Crested Flycatcher

reddirtretiree - OMG, you have such a sweet variety. I especially like that Summer Tanager and the Indigo Bunting.

nanny_56 - pretty Baltimore Orioles. Is that just plain "hummer" sugar water in your orange feeder?

pelletory - congrats on the Summer Tanager lifer. I bet you were excited! AND the one flying up to the feeder - great.

ducbucln - its good to be back - and that Black Phoebe looks real good.

Hack

I have some to share.

Always have Chipping Sparrows around.

Hack

Female Red-wing Blackbird. dellrose and Resin helped me ID it. I should have known.

Finches, I got finches - male Goldfinch, House Finch (male and female

I have only seen one before, and it was pretty blue.

dellrose and Resin ID'd this for me as a female or juvie Indigo Bunting.

Now, I've seen two. lol.

I've been seeing Robins everyday.

This Mockingbird was standing on a concrete picnic table at the park - and I had the 40D.

This male Red-bellied Wp was having a bit of suet.

They're gone now, but here is one on my 3 baby Chickadees waiting on its next meal.

And it soon got what it wanted.

That's all for now.

Bye,
Hack

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Wonderful shots Hack!
Congratulations on the Chickadees fledging!

Went through more photos of the Summer Tanager, here is 1 more.

Hack, here's a pic of a young chickadee that visited the back yard with it's parents yesterday. It's doing that wing-fluttering begging in the pic. Parents would bring him a sunflower seed. Unfortunately Daddy BB doesn't allow chickadees in the back yard so the show was brief.

A pic of a female Summer Tanager. The ones I saw in MO and NE OK recently seemed much more yellow than the ones I saw last spring in Uvalde County Texas.

All gorgeous shots.

Brilliant start to the thread, Rose. Congratulations on the warbler lifer.

Pelle and Red, your Summer Tanagers are absolutely stunning. What a thrill it must have been to see that beauty in your yard, Pelle.

Another singing Indigo.

O my goodness.....red you are out doing yourself with beautiful photos!

I second your flycatcher Lily...haven't seen a kingbird here yet either.

Great series Hack! Yes I just make a big batch of hummer nectar and use it in all the feeders.

Baltimore Orioles....

Male & female..... B. Orioles

Beautiful Orioles nanny!

Wow I just looked out in the backyard to see the Summer Tanager clinging to the long tail prop suet feeder eating! I'm so glad he figured that out.

I've had a couple of orioles visit my feeder, but between Daddy and the mockingbirds, they keep them chased away.

Some Killdeer on the hill behind the BB box. There was a fourth one, but he was some distance away. Hope they stay around.

Like all of you, I'm watching for the spring arrivals. I only saw 6 or 7 backyard warblers yesterday, but there were 5 different kinds. I had Yellow-rumped, Orange-crowned, Wilson's, Yellow, and the beautiful Nashville. He's more brilliant than I remembered.

He just arrived yesterday.

The Tanagers and Indego and the Warblers are beautiful. So fun to see all the new Spring arrivals. Good birding everyone.

Saw my first hummer of the season yesterday. He came around twice, but for some reason, he didn't take any drink from the feeder. He checked all the port and then flew off. Next few days is suppose to warm up a bit, hopefully he will stop in again then.

One of my recent arrival is the White-crowned Sparrow.

Thanks for the new thread Rose, and congratulation on your new lifer.

The White-throated Sparrows are numerous this year.

A Chipping Sparrow resting in the tree.

A Purple Finch and Dark-eyed junco feeding together.

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I'm a bird neophyte, but as best I can tell from my Petersen guide, this is a rose-breasted grosbeak. But the migration map doesn't look like it's too common in my area, so I may be wrong. Unfortunately, he flew into my window pane, so sat a little stunned long enough for me to find my camera.

Still a little dazed.

Shortly after this shot, he flew away, so I feel relieved.

Welcome guys!

Hi Weerobin, Yes that is a Rose-breasted Grosbeak. As far as the range maps well they are usually close to being out of date by the time they go to print.

If you can do it, the best thing to do would be join your states Bird Listserv for reports from all other birders across your state. You can get reports sent in a digest form or individual e mails sent to your e mail account. It's a great way to find out what types of birds are being seen and where.

Here is a link, look under "Electronic Mailing List" - http://www.birding.com/wheretobird/missouri.asp

The Pine Siskins are still here, but no Goldfinch.

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Another Black-headed Grosbeak showed up.

This one thinks he's a Goldfinch.

Do you think I'm over feeding the Quail?

The Tree Swallows are busy nest building.

This one seems to be in a bigger hurry than the other two.

White winged Dove

Nice pics everyone!

Great shots everyone ,I need to get the Bird watching chair out and sit in it,lots of action going on happy Mee happy birds..

i need some help here,here is a shot of a nest tell me what you think ????