DAILY PICS-VOL. 20

A pair of Trumpeter Swans. The largest of all Swans. Photographed 9/11/2007, in a pond at mile 111.8 on the Parks Hwy. near Talkeetna, Alaska.

Very nice to see.

Nice pic!

Gorgeous shot Gary!! Thanks for starting the new thread! Pelle

Hummer and lantana.

Beautiful pic; good job Frank!

Nice photos!

Is this a female or juvenile pine warbler? As usual I thought I was just photographing sparrows until I saw someting different on my computer screen. I always welcome the flocks of sparrows because sometimes other birds come with them.

Lovely pic Frank! It certainly could be a juvenile Pine Warbler it has the 2 wingbars and the streaking on the side. Maybe a female?

LOL, I have a bad track record with Pine & Palm Warblers so I'm going to bow out and let someone else do this ID.

Again, very nice pic!

BTW, do you keep a Life List on the birds you see (new ones).

Nice pics, especially the opening shot of the Swans.....I got this shot of a Woodpecker at the suet a few hours ago.

Pelletory...The guide I use has a place to mark in the index section for a life list. Of course by doing it that way it is impossible to keep track of the number. But I don't have to search a list to see if something is already there.

Nice one GP, I haven't seen my females in a long time.


Okay Frank; Thanks.
BTW, what guide are you using?

I use an old Audubon Society field guide(eastern region).

We're still getting hot days here.

That is an unusual shot! I don't think I have ever seen a dove do that.

Dave, it looks like she's taking a bow. Beautiful shot!

Janet

I love that pic Dave... We might see them do things like that, but rarely have the camera ready.

Nice pics guys!

I'm having a heck of a problem w/ Doves having hard window stikes and killing themselves.

I have plenty of Window Alert stickers on the windows and they work great for all the other birds but not for the Mourning Doves who seemly take off w/ their eyes closed.

I've gotten over feeling really bad about it but almost wish they would not come around anymore.

Funny side note: Everytime this happens my parrot who's in that room and right near one of the windows very loudly and excitedly calls out "Whooooo"; kind of like Little Richard,lol.

Doves do the goofiest things, I'm really not surprised. Thank goodness we don't have that problem with them.

Aren't parrots a hoot? Ours come up with some funny noises, too, and sometimes it takes us a while to figure them out. Recently our macaw started imitating the neighbor's rooster.

Beautiful pics as always. Love those swans - they look so peaceful, but I've been stalked by one, so I know better! lol

UFO? taken off Kellog Beach Ca.

LOL - looks like a flying turtle!

bath time

not the most clear pic - I'm sitting on my deck trying to get some computer work done - what am I doing? Watching the birds.

The UFO is not faked. It has wings and flew by me when I was on Kellog Beach.

adel- I don't think kaperk meant it that way. They were just making a joke(hence the LOL).
I know what this bird is but can't think of the name. I have a lot of domestic stuff I have to do right now so can't go searching until later. Hopefully someone else will come in w/ the answer soon! :-)

Brown Pelican? (The UFO, I mean. ;-> )
Deb

Pelican is what I'm thinking too....

Thank you Resin.

Nice pelican adel!

I hear you debilu, It's nice to work outside, but the birds and other identified flying critters distract me too.

DH lost it when I read your post pelle. Your parrot is a comedian.. whoohooo!
I get a dove hitting the window every day now, but so far no casualties

Love the close-up of the lil hummer frank!!

The lil hummer I had taking over the yard was getting bold, running every other hummer off... until the other day when a more mature RT came by and he chased him.. They both left, but the RT came back to rule the rest of the day.

Now he is learning to share.. Another one came by and perched near him in the corner tree, and he just sat there and allowed the other hummer to drink from all the flowers without batting a wing. Maybe they knew each other too, but at least he's sharing with someone.

On Vitex tree>

Pelle I knew kaperk was joking, I was just giving a hint and it looks like it worked, DebinSC and Sadie _Mae are right. It's a Brown Pelican.

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Beautiful hummer Debnes! :)

A little different view of the same bird.

I love pics of hummers with flowers.

I agree frank!
Makes me feel good to know they are getting the right vitamins from nectar..

This was taken right before the sun went down yesterday. There was a golden reflection on the lil hummer at the Cuphea>


debnes

Can anyone ID this w/ certainty? It looked much more yellow in the full light, but this is the only shot I was able to get of it. I thought warbler when I saw it through the lens. Could it be a Common Yellowthroat?

This message was edited Sep 14, 2007 12:45 AM

I hadn't seen one of the Flycatchers for awhile, so was quite pleased to observe one for a long time today. It caught a bug so large I wasn't sure it was ever going to get it down, and then did some stretching for me.

Sorry this isn't more clear.

Doing stretching exercises.

They are pretty little birds. Not sure which Flycatcher this is, as they can be so similar.