DAILY PICS VOL. 32

Had to go to town again today so I revisited the Pond West of town.

Lots of ducks

This goose is marked like A Canada Goose but quite a bit smaller.

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No question what this guy is eating, those are feathers floating around his head

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Excerpts from Cornell's "All About Birds" website:

Cool Facts

.....The Cackling Goose was long considered just a small race of the Canada Goose. The smallest four of the eleven recognized races were recently determined to be distinct enough to be their own species.

.....The smallest form of the Cackling Goose is only a quarter the size of the "Giant Canada Goose" subspecies.

(This smallest form is found along the California coast)

How 'bout this.......

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q37/oldned/untitled.jpg

Some pics from this afternoon.
Finch on the hook.

Finches on feeder.

And the last, doves on the fence.

OldNed, that is just the cutest most amazing picture! Nice 'grin.'

I think my Bullfinch is a Chaffinch male. I saw, I think, two different ones in the apple tree in the neighbour's garden, there's an old (Wood Pigeon?) nest which they were interested in. The wings look to have a yellow stripe where it should be white, but everything else seems to match Chaffinch.

Robin thinks he does have a head, and long legs too.

I get really upset about that..

Take a better look..

hehe, that was fun wasn't it.

Can you find me..

I'm here!

Todays cast of characters were..............Sunny Goldfinch

Bouncy Junco

Jumpy Towhee

And Jerky Jay

Thanks for identifying the poultry Resin! :-)

Ned- Love the Youtube pic!

Very Nice pics adel,GM!

Beautiful robin wallaby!

wallaby - the robin is charming! Story-book like.

Robin is a bit of a show stealer!

It's wet and cold today, possibly for the next 9 days too, rain or showers each day with no sun promised. Somehow on the 10th day we should have sun and cloud, haha. Time to sort pics (boring).


Look who was perching on the oak tree tops yesterday, across the horse paddock.

It couldn't have got a higher perch, it was wobbling on the thin branch.

Haven't I seen you before?

Nice magpie!

Wow, Wallaby beautiful magpie and the robin was very cute.

Jenny

Buddies!

adelbertcat,
Nice to see different race variations of some common Eastern birds. We don't get to see these races here. In order: Sunny Goldfinch=Lesser Goldfinch------Bouncy Junco=Oregon Junco-----Jumpy Towhee=the western race of the Rufous-sided.
Jimbo

I would love to see an Eastern Towhee.

Nice photos once again, everyone.

I didn't see too many bird species this weekend. Earlier in the week, I ran into a huge flock of Robins and a smaller flock of Cedar Waxwings. Of course, lots of Canada Geese have arrived for the winter. This weekend, I did come across a large flock of Buffleheads, 30+. Here is a photo of some of them followed by a few other other pics ....

A closer view of a pair of Buffleheads ....

A Northern Cardinal .....

A Great Blue Heron in flight ...

A Belted Kingfisher .....