Daily piccies vol 411

We've come from vol. 410 here: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1204693/

Here's a Roseate Tern to start off 411

Resin

Very nice Resin!

Thanks for starting the new thread!

Great shots on the last thread everyone!

I've been taking a lot of pics of the Red-tailed Hawks flying around. Here is one.

Thank you Resin for the brand new start. Look at the Roseate Tern. It's banded! Pelle, such sharp image of the RTH! Wow!

My hubby made me a ant moat out of a cap someone gave him, the ants have been terrible! So when he gets another cap, he will make one for the other feeder, hopefully it won't scare the hummers away.

Very nice start Resin.

Beautiful shot Pelle!

Red, those kite shots on the last thread are just amazing!

Do y'all want to play a game? Find the bird.

I took the pic above b/c I saw a little bird (hint, hint) fly down into those reeds but could not find it with the binocs. I just aimed the camera in the direction and took a pic. Amazed me when I finally found the bird in it and was able to ID it.

I was trying to get a good pic of this bird at the time. This Great Kiskadee is still hanging around but very hard to photograph. He was really far away, and too often that black eyestripe makes his eyes disappear.

This is a terrible shot, but I like it anyway - a Great Crested Flycatcher.

I'll stop, for now, with this one -- a blue-gray gnatcatcher.

I enjoy all these birds which I have never seen.

Another great day for the Hummingbird lady(me)! My hubby was holding the single feeder in his hand beside the hook, his finger was resting on the hook, a hummer ate out of it, I took one and set it in my hand and one ate out of it! Nothing else can touch that. To have something that small trust you not to hurt them while they are eating, it is so humbling! Sorry if I seem such a sap, but I have been wanting to get them to eat out of my hand for 3 yrs, so I think I have a right to gloat a little while:)!

You go teddy! LOL Wonderbarrrr pics. Elphy, and I found the bird on your 1st pix. What was it anyway? Never have I seen a Kiskadee either, IrisMa.

Nice start Resin... a beautiful Tern!

Helen... that's a gorgeous RTH!

Elphaba... you got me! I couldn't see the bird in the first photo! Good eye and catch for you!

Teddy... that is great! I have always wanted to do that too, but never have! The female hummers will come to the feeder on the balcony to feed when I am standing only two feet away, and that's pretty cool!

Here's a male hummer perched on the limb I have set up for the birds on our balcony. Our hummer activity is starting to pick up as it gets later in the summer.

My baby Green Herons are almost grown up now. I think this one looks like a little old man!

Took me all summer to get the Grey Catbird out in the open enough to get a photo!

Another look at the young Osprey before she fledged.

Wonderful shots Elphaba and VA!

Beautiful shots VA! Good job getting that ruby throat, and that Green Heron is just perfect -- even made a grouchy lady like me go ahhh!.

OK, bird in first pic is a Louisiana Waterthrush -- at least that was my take. Could be Northern Waterthrush but I think the eyebrow gets wider behind the eye and the belly is white. Here it is cropped way too much! Thanks for playing. Sorry no prizes.

Oh, I'm glad you cropped it. I couldn't find it!

I did, I did, and there is no prize for it? :(( LOL I think I've an Oriole passing through.....yeah, they're migrating! (gotta crop the pix first though).

Found one fairly good pix of the mentioned Oriole, or is that a yellow warbler? It's bigger than a finch, so maybe Oriole? Baltimore?

Beautiful bird Lily -- no idea what it is -- I would guess one of the orangy orioles. I think your Baltimore guess is a good one.

As for your prize, you get nothin' but accolades -- WOOHOO LILY!!! That's better than a prize right? No?

Elphy, thank you. That's good as it gets! Thank you. ^_^ I'm going to set out a nectar feeder with perch hopefully they will hang around for a little while during their journey South.

Wonderful photos is that last thread everyone.

Resin, thank you for the new start. Nice shot of the tern. I hope they continue to visit that area.

Elphaba, you sound like you're enjoying yourself when you're taking pictures. Cute birds!

Teddy, I know the feeling you get when you feed the hummers-good for you!

VA, great photos of your birds, especially the osprey.

Lily, love your oriole.

This was a long distance photo, but they're Brandt's Cormorants.

A little Bushtit.

An Oak Titmouse.

How nice to see a large group of birds all at once like those Brandt's Cormorants, Duc. Love the little Bushtit and the as always the Oak Titmouse.

We have had a lot of Tufted Titmice lately, the other day we had 3 at once and boy do they give the Downy Woodpecker heck! They scold the heck out of him, so he chirps all the time when he is here, I think he thinks the upside down feeder is his alone, so he don't like it when other ones come to eat. He tries to chase them off, but he is the one who gets chased off. I did not realize how interesting those little Titmice are, their gray and white bodies and blue feet. But they are beautiful, the hummers are still hitting the little feeders big time even in the rainy, cool day we are currently having, it does not seem to faze them in the least.

Thanks Resin for the nice start.

And thanks to the rest of you for all the great photos.

I heard a catbird several times but never got a picture. I think all the orioles have left. So I guess the grape jelly will last longer now that the price is for some reason lower at the store.

Thanks again for all the good photos.

Donna

I agree with Resin, Lily....think you had a tanager! The bill looks a little heavy for an oriole. We had a migrating male Baltimore Oriole stop in yesterday morning...that was nice. Otherwise, as of yesterday we were down to just 1 oriole left.....and I have not seen it today.

This photo shows the last 2 we had as of August 10.

We still have 2 juvie Red-bellied Woodpeckers around!

Noticed the Robins starting to flock up around here too this week. Where did the summer go??? Got this guy by himself, but there were about 10-15 scattered around the yard.

Resin, A Tanager was my first thought too on Lilys bird.

Nice shots guys!

Wooohooo, Tanager? That's going to be a 'lifer' for me!!!!! Thanks Resin, Pelle and Nan.

I have heard quite a bit of heavy drilling in our woods. Perhaps a red-bellied woodpecker. Not loud enough for a piliated one.

Although, these birds are here year round. Ever since the dead pine tree within our side yard in which they called home was taken down by winter storm. The Redheaded Woodpeckers stopped coming to the backyard feeders. Yesterday, while in the garden, I heard their distinctive calls. The I spotted one. I was delighted!

My hubby made some sugar water for the hummers, now if we can just keep the squirrels out of it, we was using the red nectar, but ran out, maybe the squirrels will find something else somewhere else to eat. Thank goodness I have a camera that I can keep an eye out for the furry pains in the butt. Several hummers have eaten off the big feeder that has the sugar water in it and there is still some of the store bought in the single feeders, and the hummers are still going crazy over them.