Daily Pictures Volume 407

Thanks n.a.n. on your remark. I can only imagine how delightful it's to watch them (goldfinches) work on the Coneflowers. You're correct, I have many of them camping out in the garden during winter, and they do take off in early spring.

Found a family of Northern Flickers this morning!

And yet another new juvie B. Oriole this morning being fed by dad!

I believe this could as well be one of the very first brood of young Mallards for the season. Some of them are still molting.

Same group;

Lovely families of birds you have, Nanny.

Nice to see the juvie House Finch, Duc. I'm starting to get the Adult Cowbirds back in the yard. I saw a male at the feeder this morning.

Chicochi, the Goldfinch, sure love those Sunflowers. I'd like to have a field full of Sunflowers, they are so pretty. Love the deer.

Margaret, :)) My Grand-falls is very amusing. Wish I had a small pocket of water somewhere in there, so the birds wouldn't work so hard for their bath.
Sorry to hear of the plight of the Black Cockatoos, 10 years goes by to fast. Hope something can be done to soon, to raise their numbers up.

Love the fact, that your close to the lake Lily, for the water fowls you see and share.

A Ring-billed Gull at the park the other day.

A Red-winged Blackbird.

An Osprey sitting on the nest. This nest was close to the street in the country. The river is about 6 or 7 miles away.

Tree swallows in flight about 10 minutes ago. About 50 feet above me. They were frolicking for about 5 minutes and I was able to get 30 or more good shots. After a while I started waiting until they came close together. This was one of the closer ones.

Make that BARN swallows (thanks Resin)

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One more. This was probably the closest they were together.

One of the parrots on a Sunflower today. Took this through a glass door and screen porch.

It's so nice to know those adorable Parrots thrive there where you're, GP. Burn, how nice to have Osprey nesting nearby. Barn Swallows or any type of Swallows are so gracious in flight, I love them cousin Dave.

Great Egret we saw during a boat ride today.

This guy was telling everyone else that this was his yard and they better leave! It was so hot today I put another small birdbath/drinking fountain for our feathered friends, it was sure a surprise when I saw a Groundhog peek around the corner of the house, I don't know who was the most surprised him or me, I raised the camera to get a shot, he scrammed pretty fast.

Great shots everyone!
Dave, Good catch on the Swallows! They are difficult to get in flight.

Lots of Blue Jay juveniles coming in.

The caged feeder has become extremely popular. I'm so glad I bought it and would consider getting another.

Pelle, what kind of seed mix are you using in your caged feeder?

We had new Red-bellied Woodpecker fledglings being brought last week. Here is a male feeding one.

Then I saw this female feeding one...don't know if was the same juvie or not!

Cute ones nanny!

The seed is sunflower chips in the caged feeder. Actually looks like whole kernels.

Great shots everyone!!

I took this one today! I am very proud of it! If I could words in her mouth, I would have her say, here's looking at you kid, or peekaboo I see you. I got another one but it is a bit blurry, will try to sharpen it up for you.

Nice one teddy, I like that cage feeder too, Pelle. Hah, I know it's a distance shot, but I couldn't resist taking this pix when I heard the little juvie Hoursefinch's begging for food up above. Ofcourse, pappa obliged soon there after for the little darling. lol

Hummingbirds I'm not having much luck with this year, but goldfinches I have a gazillion of all year. And Lord help me, they're having their babies now; that nyjer stuff sure is expensive!

Glad you got your hummer, Teddy. I shot some pics of a Black-chinned through the shutters the other day, not worth posting, but will serve as rarity photos. So far as I know Norman is the farthest east they have been spotted.

Got a shot of this fellow down on the ponds this morning.

Checked on the mockingbird babies and everyone said they were hungry!

Lovely pics. Red, Carol I'm so happy to learn goldfinches nest in Md. hopefully they'll find plenty of insects in the wild to sustain.

Great photos everyone! I've gotten behind again.

Here's one of my Mourning Doves.

This Lesser Goldfinch was enjoying a bath.

This Osprey was showing off his meal, but never came very close to me.

Hi all! My work schedule has kept me from doing more than lurking on DG lately!

I simply cannot catch up and comment individually right now, but everyone has been posting some beautiful photos!

I have some to share...

Here is an older juvenile Green Heron

I found another GH nest with younger chicks... there are three!

This is from when I first found them.

Mama GH giving me a nasty look!

This is Larry, Curly and Mo from today! :o)

This guy was flashing the people on the dock across the pond...

A Royal Tern... (thanks Resin for the correction)

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Osprey parent and chick

As usual I am enjoying the pictures.
I like our Mourning Doves too. I just hope the Eurasian Collareds stay away. I heard they are pretty aggressive about nesting territory. They've put a dent in some MD populations. We had one pass through this spring. I think it found its way to the co-op where there is ready grain for them.

That Mother Green Heron is something else. LOL

"Some sort of woodpecker" my husband says.

When I looked at the picture I saw a White-breasted nuthatch. :) I hope it doesn't sound like I'm picking on him. He's in the early stages of learning as the rest of the family. We just witnessed these so much more than he as he works during the day.

We tried to go birding for our anniversary yesterday. We found someone to watch the children as a grand treat. I don't remember the last time we didn't take our children on our anniversary outing. The heat was keeping the birds in the shade so we didn't see a whole lot, but we enjoyed our leisurely time. We also hit Barnes &Noble (bought a couple bird books), Lowe's (had to replace the tube feeder that crashed to the ground in a storm), PetSmart (BIG block of suet and cage to fit it in) and Olive Garden. (Umm, I had chicken alfredo. Hey, that's bird related. :)