Daily Bird Pics - Vol. 412

awesome pics guys!! Here are few from the morning walk yesterday.

Eastern Phoebe....I watched this one for a while and it was following the male Blue Bird around. Found that very interesting!

Male Eastern Blue Bird

Gray Catbird....eating some berries.

Almost headless Hermit Thrush....lol!!! Hoping I did better today one this one!

Well after posting another photo on the ID forum and comparing to other photos I have.....this is most likely a Swainson's Thrush...not a Hermit!

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back at home...a platform full of Crows!

this is a photo today of a thrush Resin has tentatively ID'd as a Swainson's Thrush and I am 99.9% sure after comparing to my photos of a Swainson's and a Gray-cheeked.

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It blended in so well it was hard to keep focused on it!

Magnolia Warblers are every where here right now!

Wow Nanny, so many interesting birds! Is that swainson's thrush a lifer for you? If so congrats.

I just have some photos from a few days ago. Here's an Oak Titmouse.

A Bewick's Wren.

Hope everyone is safe from that nasty hurricane.

No not a lifer...but nice to get some more photos of one.

Spotted a Brown Thrasher yesterday....was wondering why I wasn't seeing any!

Got a few nice shots of this Gray Catbird. I really like this one.

Not sure why this Robin was all puffed up!

Robin

tufted titmouse

Another

Love all the different birds guys; great shots!

Hope everyone in the East made it through the hurricane alright. We're still having strong wind gusts but so far everything is good.

I took down all the bird feeders last night after dark and when I went outside to put the feeders back up before 6 am and was greeted by 2 Hummingbirds and many other small birds anxious to eat.

I was surprised to see the hummingbirds continuing to come to the feeder until dark, despite the strong winds and heavy rain. It is a wonder they didn't hurt their beaks, being blown about as they were. I had planned to take the feeder down but couldn't bear to since they seemed so determined to keep coming. Besides, I didn't want to get all wet.

Here are two, just before dark.

But this morning the storm was gone; no wind and the sky even displayed tiny patches of blue. By noon the sky was completely blue. Here is a shot I took this morning, probably one of the hummers you see in the previous picture. This was taken with the 100mm macro lens, from a distance of about 15 inches (through the window, of course).

Wow, lots of great shot all!! Been a strange summer for me, right now just trying to get back on track. Have a few shots to share with you. Visited Pipe Creek for the last time today...it will be January before I get to return. Start off with a new bird for my list and one Id thought Id never see but Pipe Creek always has the odd visitor. Ruddy Turnstone

A Barn Swallow was giving this female Belted Kingfisher a hard time while it hunted.

an immature Caspian Tern

a female Mallard comes in for a landing...

female Northern Shoveler's...

A Great Egret

another Belted Kingfisher shot....

an immature Cooper's Hawk tries to hunt in the rain...

another new one...the Bobolink...an immature one here...

several young Bobolinks here...

a young Great Blue Heron...

an immature Red-winged Blackbird...

an Indigo Bunting...

Least Sandpiper on the right..

Semipalmated Sandpiper on the left..

a Spotted Sandpiper...

a young Spotted Sandpiper..

Called this Sora out of the brush with my Audubon app..on my phone...works quite well with the smaller birds.

one more of the Sora...

A Peregrine Falcon showed up and was hunting Teal at the creek...got a couple shots...was not easy bird is very fast.

wow!