DAILY PICS VOL. 33

Hello!

Thanks Pelle for the opportunity to start Volume 33.

Though quite common, I DO love the color on these male house finches, so thougth they deserved their due.

Looks like he might be related to Jimmy Durante,

Recently I decided to try some sun flower bits. The Gold Finch don't much care for them, but the other birds, like the Spotted Towhee do.

This Towhee wont share with any of the other birds except this Fox Sparrow.

A Dark-eyed Junco waiting for his turn.

Success

Nice pics!

Thanks Mrs_Ed for starting the new thread!

A pic taken today of a Dove with lovely colors showing.

Very nice!

Flyover shot of a Black Vulture.

Good one!!

Another flyover, an Osprey.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/680396/

I posted some SIX + pictures of birds [following my yesterday's visit to the lake] in this link to my old thread with a purpose that it becomes easier for me for later searches.

In continuation of Vol.32, my thanks for you Resin, et al for correctly identifying the Bee Eater. [another shot in the above link].

For now, here is a picture of a Heron by the lake.

Dinu

Very nice shot Dinu!

I have not been able to make my daily visits to the Bird Watching forums for days on end - I miss it. Thanks to everybody for posting. Every photo is a story for somebody else to enjoy.

Exceptional shot Dinu!

I got some of a Jay in the shadow of the oak which are 'acceptable', will post them later as it's dark early here, by 4pm!

Well I actually got more than the Jay, the sun was shining around midday but soon went to the same old dull. But I took my camera out in hopes, there was birds around, missed the Magpie that floated from the top of a tree near me as I hadn't got my camera quite ready, took the cap off but hadn't switched it on, then I zoomed it back but it was already out, it was on landscape so I switched to auto but by the time I got it it was a landscape shot! This is what cold dull weather does to the brain, lol.

The Jay was up in the shade of the farthest row of oaks, but the pics did lighten up a little. It was having a preen, then eating I guess an acorn, but it was then behind a branch so only got both ends of it.

Here it is fluffing it's feathers.

Having a scratch

Sat still!

Both ends

Shortly after I saw a bird flying in the distance I thought was a goose with a very long neck, never seen a swan flying over here before!

Posting the first hurried pic even though it's rubbish, it shows the length of the neck.

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Thought I would add that there are swans in Lincoln, and lakes near here.

This pair were sitting where I usually see Doves, they have to be my Wood Pigeon babies! Mom was in the Horse Chestnut nearby as usual.

I love that shot of your babies, wallaby.

Thanks nanny, it was so dull the camera had a job focusing on all the grey. You can see the bottom one was looking at me, I guess they recognise me!

probably! I have a WBN that will watch for me when I bring the tray out with the peanuts in it. It will stay right there on the tree until I get 3-4ft from the tree and then it will go up a littl higher. After I hang it and get about 3ft away from the tree it wiil come down to the tray. But it talks to me as if it is saying 'thanks'.

Oh NO! They still look like babies to me, I knew you would tell me that!

Nice pics wallaby!

I ran across this posting of a northern Illinois bird watcher. His pictures of the Snow Buntings are lovely and so I wanted to share…

http://www.birdsillinois.com/news/snow-buntings---north-point-marina.html

Very nice!!

Thanks Mrs Ed!

Thanks Resin for the right pointer on Heron.

Wallaby,
It is so very hard to picture birds sitting on branches in the shady areas, is it not? I have faced this problem too!

How many gulls does it take to hatch a giant bean?

LOL!

What is the mirrored thing you are calling a "giant bean"?

That is so cool! Nice shot.

That is a sculpture called "Cloud Gate." It is in Chicago. It is more commonly referred to as "the bean."

http://www.millenniumpark.org/artandarchitecture/cloud_gate.html