DAILY BIRD PICS VOL 429

Love the robins in the birdbath and those TX birds are really beautiful.

thebestmissy,
Great set of pictures. It appears you had as much fun as we did birding the same area last month. How long did you have to wait to see the Brown Jays? We kept missing them and spent more than ten hours over three days waiting before seeing them. Although, it’s not much of a hardship killing time in Salineno Birding Area.

This is a picture of the same Hooded Oriole perched on the same re-bar, as the picture you posted above.

Great Gray Owl (Strix nebuosa)
Anchorage, Alaska 1/21/2011

"See my talons, you better stay back there."

Great Gray Owl (Strix nebuosa) Anchorage, Alaska 1/21/2011

Additional pictures of the Great Gray Owl are posted in the thread "Birds in winter scenes."

Nice shots everyone. That Owl looks scary. Like the Texas birds. I had the fortune to see a few of them while in McAllen Tx last summer at the old pump station near the border. I have not seen a Sapsucker in ages. With the icy weather, I had lots of visitors today. This is one of them - female cowbird.

Another shot

Beautiful shots Grasmussen and Meth. That owl looks ominous.

Here is a shot of House and Gold Finch during the snow yesterday. Did not take them very long to empty the feeders.

Grasmussen, We were very lucky in Salineno. We waited about 1 1/2 hour to see the Brown Jay. We got there at about 9 am, and it had already been there at about 8 am that morning, so we were a bit dubious. He showed up again at about 10:30 am, so we got to see him. That's funny that our Hooded Oriole photos are alike. I'll bet you did a double-take.
Very cool owl photos!

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We have had an unusually large amount of I think they are supposed to be purple headed finches, they are a lot more this year than I have seen in a while. Here is a picture where I caught two of them on the round feeder at the same time, I thought it was a pretty good shot. Something is wrong with my Irfanview, I can auto adjust colors but when I try to save it it won't let me do it. That is why my pictures are kinda foggy, I take them through the front door glass.

Had a go at it in photoshop . . .

Resin

Nothing new here, but I wanted to stop by and catch up on all your beautiful photos !

Thanks Resin, I don't know what is wrong with that darn Irfanview, it did not do that before. My hubby said I have to rename the file, I did not have to do that before either. I was thinking of loading another program to fix up the pictures, is Photoshop a good program to install? I have some pictures I would like to fix up and am going to try to get some more pictures this afternoon.

Red, great shot of your bb.

Missy, great photos of all the birds. That green jay is so beautiful and congrats on the brown jay sighting.

Love that owl Gras.

Met, pretty cowbird.

Granny, cute shot of your finches.

Teddy cute finches there too.

Another crow photo for you.

We have a new bald eagle here that looks like it's got nesting materials in the talons.

Can't recall if I posted this male cowbird.

Here's a lesser goldfinch about to drink some water.

A pair of robins.

Oh it sure does duc...nice catch on the eagle!

Hard to see but this Brown Creeper was really checking every nook & cranny for food yesterday!

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missy, you used the singular when referring to the Brown Jay. When we were there in early December, an adult and a yellow billed immature bird always came together.

mama red bellied woodpecker eating some suet.

Enjoying all of the great pictures. Love the Robins, Duc--they remind me of warmer weather. LOL

Here is a White Crowned Sparrow, a House Sparrow, and an out-of-focus woodpecker (not sure if it is a Downy or Hairy, would suspect that it is a Downy). Did not see the woodpecker until I uploaded the pictures.

Here is a flock of American Robins, I took yesterday, to remind you what time of the year it really is. The wind blew a new storm in last night, and blew all the beautiful hoar frost away. At least it warmed up above 0 F.

Wow wow, when I stepped away for a little while and look at all those that I missed. Very nice pix everyone. I can't make individual comment, though, I enjoyed learning more Jays than just the one I get down East, and those out West that Duc often sees. The Owl is scary looking, I agree.

? Downy woodpecker? Cute little one.

Yep, Downy Woodpecker

Resin

I've been reading about an over-abundance of Snowy Owls to the North. Birdwatchers are going out to see one and seeing two or three at a time. Keep your eyes open, Northerners!

Beautiful shots on this thread. Robins appear here in mid March and remain through the summer. And here is a flock of them sitting in a frosted tree in Alaska!

Here, a Goldfinch is sharing a feeder with a male Cardinal. The Cardinal looks as though he is not too thrilled with this arrangement. LOL

White-Crowned Sparrow.

GG, I regcon the Robins lost their way perhaps? Nice pix of the Goldfinch and Cardinal combo. I think I've a white-crowned Sparrow, but it has yellow marking on the top of the head, is that a gender thing? It has been very mild a winter here. I think 'our' goldfinch is about to molt thinking it's spring. Oh thanks Resin for the Downy I.D confirmation as well.

Seems like forever since I saw a White-crowned...nice ones GG!

OMG. Missy and Gary,too funny about the Hooded Oriole!


I haven't seen a robin for ages, guess they are all up in Alaska.

This thread is going too fast for me!!!

Finally got a chance to download some stuff. First up, I've had good numbers (for me) of American Goldfinch. During storms, the most I've seen this winter are about 13. Here are some.

My sister and nephew made this cute seed bell for us for Christmas. I took this picture to show them that it was a hit.

Rut Roh! Then this beauty stopped by. So far, I haven not seen any of the hawks catch anything. I've had about 5 sightings in the yard this year.

That is not fair that your hawk sits so nice on the fence for you!

Yeah Marna--what did you do, threaten it?

Mourning Dove coming in for a landing.

Oh what a beauty. You all take such good pictures. Amazing.

Great photo of the Hawk, Mrs-Ed !!! The one I see here like to hide among the branches in the neighbord's tree. DH saw one grab a Dove, behind the house, yesterday.

Best missy, beautiful assortement of birds. It great to see birds from other area.

Gary your caption on the Owl, goes so well with the pic. I'd stay back for sure.

Great pictures all.

The Pigeon are being a nuisance now, had only two at the start of winter, they have told a some friends of the buffet table here.

The Blue Jay are very picky about their peanuts.

I been throwing cat food out there to get the Starlings off the suet, it works, and the crows loves it too.

Nice shots Burn. Love the Crow. Nanny told me to throw cat food out to attract the crows to my back yard--neighbor's big fat tom cat ate it!!