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First time I've seen the Cardinals eat suet.

My guess is when birds are nesting they will eat a lot of unusual foods. She needs to keep her energy up.


Deb

Crested Duck

Not sure what this duck is.

The second duck looks like a Muscovy

Marilyn: I agree with GLD, that 2nd one is almost certainly a muscovy - a young one or a female, IMO.
I love the crested ducks. We have some all-white ones at our pond down the street. They're so cute with that little puff-ball on their heads.

Deb

Thanks I thought it might be a muscovy but wasn't sure.

Took this yesterday.

Very nice pics Marilyn!!

Deb, your right about the Cardinal and thats Insect Suet so it probably was more tempting too.

The neighborhood Ibis were around again today...including a young one.

Very nice pic GP!!

Thanks, Pelle.

I took a number of pictures of this pale colored Canada Goose at Eastchester Lagoon, Anchorage, AK. on 4/15/2007.

Great Shot Gary! Very pretty birds!

Nice photos, everyone ....

Gary, there are quite a few sub-species of the Canada Goose. Here is a link to a list of these sub-species. I tried to place it into one of them but wasn't successful. Good capture !!!!

http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/Canadagoosesubspecies.html

Thats interesting, I never realized there were many different types of Canada Goose.

This doesn't look like a separate subspecies to me, I'd suspect it is just a leucistic individual. The pale legs certainly suggest this, as all of the normal subspecies have black legs. It is also structurally very similar to the other bird it is with. I've seen several leucistic individuals in Greylag Goose and Pink-footed Goose; they are fairly frequent.

Resin

I believe this is a female grackle.

duck....duck....goose!

Nice pic cpart! Marilyn, Good looking Grackle!

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Clever chick!
Nice capture!

:-Deb