Daily Pics Vol. 37

I know you're in there!!

Nice photos everyone ..... anyone get any recent photos of the Evening Grosbeak. I have not seen one in 20 years. I remember having a large number of them in my backyard years ago but no more ???

Thanks resin on your ID of the Coopers Hawk.

Here a close-up photo of the House Finch.

American Goldfinch in winter plumage ..........

A few more Goldfinches enjoying the thistle seed.

Dark-eyed Junco ......

Nice pics guys!

Dellrose The raspberry color of those Purple Finch is a real standout and the Nuthatch is so cute!

Linth, Beautiful pics! Bebop posted a series of pics of EG's in the Daily Pics Vol. 34 ; here they are:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/793352/

Cooper it is! :-) resin!
Great finches charles! & I guess there's nothing like a little snowy suet for a hungry junco. It's just been so much warmer here for this time of year. Still no winter birds, just the migratory ones so far. That might change in the next day or so.. Right now we are at 70 degrees (record or near about), and it is expected to come in slow from the Northwest. It creeps and then moves a little. In Decatur it is 50* right now and that is 30 miles NW of here.

All that to say I am expecting some more 'different' visitors, we shall see. I am so easily amused this way, to be all excited on a the possible diversity. haha! I am kinda waiting on some that came last year close to Christmas time too. OC & YR Warbler and RC Kinglet... to name a few.

debnes

Too cold here for me this morning. -18 degrees when I got up. The birds were feasting already. I don't know how they do that. Their bodies are so little and even puffed up, you wouldn't think they could generate enough warmth to keep them going.

I hear ya sybil

Lily,

Thanks for the info. Do you ever have the deer eating the Winterberries?

Linthicum and Debnes, nice Hawk pics!

Nanny, Nice Cardinal pics!

Rose, nice Nuthatch pic!

Linth,

Nice Junco pic! Nice House Finch pic! Nice Goldfinch pics!

Resin..Thanks for the ID...now I can quit wondering!

Thanks for the comments Pelle and Marilyn!

Linth...I hope when my birds grow up they will photograph as beautiful as yours!!

Hi Guys!

***bebop will be starting the new thread soon.***

Sorry Marilynandbeth - I forgot about the deer part lol. I never see deer at my house. I'm wondering if its because there are so many dogs in the neighborhood. There are deer living in the wooded area next to a golf course that I am not too far from. If you have deer at your house I bet they would love to munch on winterberries unfortunately. Probably the twigs too!

These birds are just a joy to see. I love those blue jays.

We don't have very many coloured birds here, most of them are brown or greenish. We have a few "escapees" that have colonised here. A cheeky greenfinch did come to check me out as we were chopping pines a while ago - I guess he will be cousins with your goldfinches Linthicum :-) Looooonnnngggg zoom to capture him so not as sharp as your delightful shots.

Thanks for sharing everyone.

Paulene

Paulenec,

Great shot! Beautiful bird!

Marilyn

Wonderful photos!
I just continued this thread with http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/796142/.

Gorgeous pictues!! Looks like everyone is getting bunches of birds! :)
Here's my Red-bellied woodpecker from today! Definitely the first time I've seen one this year! He's so pretty!

Paulene, Thats one cute Greenfinch! Thanks for posting the pic!


Indiana, Very nice pic! I love the Red-bellieds!

Heres the new thread again:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/796142/

This message was edited Dec 8, 2007 6:49 PM

What a nice shot of the Red-bellied!

Beautiful indiana! I don't think I've ever seen a red bellied with SUCH a red head!

To Marilyn in Hebron, KY, Winterberry holly are deer resistant plants. The deer here (Zone 6b Indiana) never touch them. You need to buy a male pollinator for an acre area of female shrubs. My Ilex verticilla grow in a shaded woodland area that has standing water most of the winter and spring and then dries up in the summer drought. The red berries are a bird magnet. Ann in Bloomington

Indianna,

Thank you so very much for the info! I'll have to see if I have the space to have both male and at least one female. I really appreciate it!

LOL, guess we better get to the new thread of daily pics before Pelle comes after us! ;-) LOL!

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/796142/

Oops! We're already on the daily pics thread - see below! ;-)

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/796452/

Marilyn

This message was edited Dec 12, 2007 12:03 AM