DAILY PICS VOL. 23

Bandtail Pigeons are still here.

Wow, what a flurry of posts all at once! LOL!

Nice E Grosbeak tigerlily, reminds me a bit of our Chaffinch.

Janet, the pheasants do have lovely feathers, I have had some different coloured ones through the garden. I got some pics through the kitchen window of one which shone golden, it didn't quite come out in the pics though and it was running so the shots weren't the best.

Wow this is a flurry of posts!

Thanks Everyone!

Tiger- love the grosbeak!

Wallaby-lol, the running!

tigerlily, your butterfly is probably a western version of the Great Spangled Fritillary, Speyeria cybele subspecies leto. They're a lot darker than most.

Didn't adelbertcat post a Dipper a couple weeks ago? I remember because I've never seen one.

There's a picture of one of those fritillaries in Bug Files, I'm kind of surprised:

http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/654/

Thanks Janet. I tried that, but I'm on dial up, and the speed is very slow today.

Thanks all for sharing your wonderful bird photos! It's especially nice to see ones of birds we don't have here.

Thanks so much claypa! I'm in Douglas county,the one just above where that was taken! Guess I'd better report the sighting to the local Ranger Station, as I do the birds.

This is the first house finch I have ever seen here in Florida. Hopefully there are others and this one is not alone.

I don't take many bird pics, but thought I'd share this funny one with you.

That is funny!! Thanks for posting it bigcityal!

Wow! What great pics tonight from all of you!!

Wallaby - yes, DH is British - Yorkshire born. We share labors - I am good at spotting, he is much better at description, then I do the looking up.

Kathleen

Claypa...spot on as Resin would say.......here it is again.

Sorry adel, my memory is not what it used to be. :-) Pelle

I suffer from a very acute case of C.R.S.

All these photos are great! The Pileated looks fabulous regardless of the photo quality. I am fascinated with those birds!

Lousy weather has been keeping the birds away, but the Quail decided to come back. This guy is being a sentinel for a flock of twenty.

The sun is shining and the piglets are celebrating.

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I love quail - haven't seen one in so long - thanks for the pic

Here is a little Blue Heron.

Don't know what this fellow is. Saw him sitting along side of a canal.

And one more.

wow what beautiful birds

Look at the feet on that bird sitting by the canal, they're huge. It's an Anhinga or 'snakebird'. They really do look like snakes when they're in the water.

I wasn't sure if it was an Anhinga or not. The only ones I have seen have been mostly black with some white on their wings.

LOL, thats the first thing I noticed were his big feet!

Nice pics guys!

Nice photos, Marilyn. Did you know that the immature Little Blue Heron is completely white. They are easy to confuse with the Snowy Egret. Last month, I took a photo of a Little Blue Heron that still had some white on it.

Little blue. Immature

Marilyn...real good photos of the herons and egret. Here is one of a great egret taking off.

Hi guys, very nice pics!

The next Daily Pics thread will be started by kennedy; he may not be around today so if you feel this threads getting a little long to load for you, as always please feel free to make your own posts.

Thanks, Pelle :-)

Ooops! Cross-posted there, I'll leave it for Kennedy to start the new one

Okay, Resin!

Want to start the one after kennedy?

adelbertcat - your little finches got lost in all the excitement over the fabulous water birds. So cute!!! Great shots everybody!

The sunshine brought out more than the piglets. One is cute....

But................

W.T.Sparrow?

G.C. Sparrow