Daily Bird Pics (and conversation) #446

wow resin! I'll say he's lost.

Wow, he's lost due to unrest weather?

Weather, likely combined with faulty navigation in a young bird (it's a juvenile).

Resin

Any chance it could be captured and overwintered in a sanctuary?

Wow Resin, this is a pretty one. I do hope it will find it's way south.

I too hope the little one will make it. Here I've some Mallards, American Coots, they were flocking together early this morning.

Great job with the coots and mallards Lily.

Here's a bald eagle just watching the ducks on the lake, a couple house finches, an intergraded northern flicker with a hummer (I see this quite often) and a bewick's wren.

Your lake is beautiful, Kim. There must be an endless, passing parade of birds.

Duc, I love that shot of the flicker with the hummingbird.

Love the cute little wren Duc, but can't believe the flicker/hummingbird.

I have to agree, that duo shot is extraordinary!!

Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers
Bluebird
Downy and a Brown Creeper

Nice ones, nanny.

Singing Honeyeater in the morning glory.

Nanny, great photos of your birds. Love that creeper.

Margaret, I can almost hear that beautiful honeyeater. Beautiful pictures with the blooms.

Here's a dark-eyed junco, a female nuttall's woodpecker that refused to come out in the open and a crow.

We had a pine sisken party this morning. haha
I enjoy seeing them in the fall and winter.

I have been watching for siskins too....part of my problem is my finch feeder is so far back in the yard. So I often wonder if I miss seeing them! Nice pic Julie!

how is this for a close up and personal?

They haven't left my place for yours yet Nanny. :) They are more numerous than all the other kind of birds, I get in the yard. Have not seen any Goldfinches for a while, and only see some Purple finches every other day.
I'm experiencing problems opening some of the thumbnails on DG. Some won't open and some open partially, while sometimes some will open. I tried many time to open Duc's pic of the Flicker and hummingbird, but it won't come up.

I'm now seeing more Pine Grosbeaks, they were a welcome sight.
The Cardinal was back this morning, this picture is from the first time I saw it.
The Bohemian Waxwing show up for the crabapples too.
Picture not of today, but the Evening Grosbeaks were around in great number, this morning as well.
No Redpolls so far, expecting them around the end of December.

I don't know why our evening grosbeaks have disappeared. However they could clean out a feeder in 5 minutes.

Julie, love your siskins! Wish some would return to my feeders.

Emptyeyes, now that is close!

Burn, I don't know what's wrong, but I can open my photos just fine. Love your birds, they're each such a pretty bird. I'm so anxious to find a waxwing at our berries-should be any time now. Beautiful pictures.

I found a great egret, a horned grebe, a couple of the bonaparte's gulls and a mallard on the lake.

Beautiful shots everyone. Just wanted to mention I saw the first batch of Robins flying over yesterday.

So funny....guess who I spotted just by chance yesterday afternoon out the window????

A Pine Siskin!! lol I wish it would have sat still for a good photo but all I did get are these bad ones!

male red-bellied wp appeared on the tube feeder this afternoon. Perhaps the food in our woods is being eaten.

Thanks for the correction Resin, I do appreciate your help.

GP, glad your robins have shown up. So far I've just found one and my berries are all ready for them.

Nanny, glad you got a pine siskin-at least you got more photos of yours than I did.

Here's the first pine siskin I've seen in two years and it just stayed for three pictures today.
The northern flickers are sure enjoying the persimmons in our neighbors trees.
Here's another northern flicker enjoying the berries on the Virginia creeper.
I know they're common, but I rarely see pigeons or rock doves as they're called.
The American white pelicans are arriving on our lake by the hundreds.

Holy Cow Vicki! That's some spectacular fall color with that first flicker.

Getting a big influx of Waxwings here

Resin

Terrific pics. of the Waxwings Resin, Duc, Love all those to include the Pine Siskin, No. Flickers, Rock Dove and especially the Pellicans. Nice series of Pine Siskins Nan. Burn, loves those Grosbeaks and the Waxwing, I was busy working on the garden and didn't have many photos to share, but this Phoebe came by my window first thing this morning.

Oh Duc, the beautiful photo of the Flicker on the color fall foliages. Is that a Persimon tree?

I don't have any pictures to show but enjoy looking at all of you guys pics.
My hummers are gone until spring. I did see some of the winter birds for the first time the other day. A Robin, a Junco and a couple of Goldfinches. It always makes me happy to see them return.

Resin, I assume you only get the Bohemian Waxwings?

A few juncos are showing up. I don't know if they are residents or starting to migrate.

Love all the photos of your beautiful waxwings Resin! You had great lighting for your photo ops, well done.

Lily, yes, that is my neighbor's persimmon tree. They have two and they're turning such beautiful colors right now. Glad the phoebe came to see you.

Pestee42, nice to hear you're seeing some winter birds.

IrisMA, I hope your juncos will stay for a while longer.

Here's a new one for me, an immature ring-billed gull, a red-tailed hawk that kept going straight up into the sky and then diving straight down-don't know what that was all about but it did that several times, here's an anna's hummingbird with that persimmon tree coloring the background and the last another anna's hummer that's sitting in a lemon tree where he guards his feeder above him.

Those Hummer shots are extraordinary.

Good Lord, duc, that last shot of the hummingbird is fantastic!

Beautiful Waxwings, Resin.

Agreed, such outstanding shot of the hummer. But by far my fav. must have been the Northern Flicker with the tiny jewel! It's rare that I get to see these colorful Woodpecker in the garden. I'm delighted to watch them going after dogwood berries this time of year.

Duc, I must have scanned through and missed that you've written on the post about the Persimons from the neighbor. Please pardon. Resin, how can we tell the different between the Bohemian Waxwings and the Cedar please?

PS up to 116 posts now - a volunteer to start Volume 447, please!

Resin

Lily, I'm jealous that you've got a sapsucker! Lucky you. Hope you can get more photos of it.

I'll be happy to start the new volume Resin.

Enjoy the photos here and then check the newest volume here-


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