Bird Watching: Daily Pics Vol 71

Those Cedar Waxwings are so pretty! we are supposed to have those year around so I still hoping to see one!

Thanks, beclu & pelle!

Thanks for starting the new Thread Gary, nice pictures of your Redpolls and Chickadees
Hey Nanny love your blue bird.
Cute Nuthatch Mrs-Ed
Adel Your Western Scrub Jay should come East, so I can see it in person.
PC, I'm posting their cousins, The Bohemian Family

another pack of them.

Male Downy Woodpecker

Very nice burn!

I just love all the waxwings!

Great pics everyone!

Marilyn

Thank you Gary for starting the new thread. Great pictures everyone!

This afternoon, as I was taking this picture, I half expected a fat little man to step out in front of me and say, "Good Evening, my name is Alfred Hitchcock ..."

Lovely NMJ.

burn,
Nice Waxwing pictures. Early this winter we had flocks of thousands, so I've had a lot of fun playing with them. Looks like you were able to get up close. If you get another chance to shot them, look for bird on the ends of branches with sky for a background. One good blue sky background is worth more than ten shots with junk in the background. (most of the time?) LOL.

On Sunday I took a bird photography trip from Anchorage to Seward and back, about 250 miles round-trip. Shot 220 pictures along the way. I think there might be a couple good shot. This is just a teaser, I'll post a few more as I sort through them. The day ended in an unexpected adventure.

Gary

Thanks for starting the new thread Gary.

Beautiful pics everyone!! I love those Waxwings, I'd sure like to see some around here!

It's been so yucky and gray here, I've been watching my feathered friends but not taking many pics so, I'll just enjoy the ones you all are posting :)

Wonderful pic Gary! What a nice surprise that must have been.


Great in flight shot Jane!

Gary, what a cute scruffy guy!! Can't wait to see the rest.

Great pictures everyone. I really do enjoy each and every one. So many kinds that I never get to see where I live.
I am still seeing the same species everyday though the behavior seems to be changing. Less time seems to be spent at the feeders and more in the scrub near my home. Lots of singing to be heard too. The days and nights are starting to warm up.
This Sharp-shinned Hawk is still visiting several times a day. He took several drinks and then flew away.

Just before he flew away. These are taken through a window so not the best but I love seeing him.

Great catch, angele!

Boy, I wish ours would sit for a minute. They go through here like dive bombers. Your lucky to even catch a glimpse! I have only one pic and though it is pretty good I would like more!

I found another Bluebird this morning on my walk.

and a Turkey Vulture flying over.

and a cute little Carolina Chickadee

What a great walk you had Nanny :-)

Yeah and a great job tracking the Turkey Vulture nanny! Those guys can sail out of sight in a blink... When they catch a thermal wind here they're gone.


Not much of me here in BW lately.. getting ready for butterfly season here, plus the docent work at
http://www.fwbg.org/butterfly.htm.

Pelle~ I will be lurking here as often as possible, and posting what I can.

Beautiful start to the new thread Gary... Great pictures everyone!

Gary thank for the tip, I will definitely watch for that. I like tips like that. Keep them coming. And thanks for saying the picture was nice, I can't compete with yours, but if you keep giving me tips, I might get there.
I wasn't very close to the birds, This was from inside the house on the north side, and about 30 feet away. I zoomed in with my X10 zoom camera, and then re zoomed again after the shot was taken. I was so afraid they would just fly off without having a chance for pictures, that I just click away, hoping for the best. They didn't stay for very long. :(

Grasmussen, Hello. I will be visiting Anchorage in late July, and wonder what bird book you'd recommend. I have RTP's Eastern, Western and TX. Does he have AK? If so, do you like it?

Since I haven't left work yet, I can upload some pics of birds much quicker than from home (where slow dialup takes longer than evolution)...

I think this is a Northern Flicker...I just know that it is surprising to see that big a bird up on the porch pecking at bird seed!

Here is the same bird, parked up in a nearby sycamore.

Here's a little devil (actually, one of many) that I'm not sure I know. I'm guessing it's a female finch, but need some confirmation.

I'll call it KY Bird #2.

How about this little fat fellow? Always look like they are wearing a helmet.

KY Bird #3 - I thought I looked this one up over the weekend, but can't remember now. Shame on me.

The flicker again (KY Bird #1), this time in the pot.

Must've startled him, 'cause he took off. Got pictures of his feet, though.

Then this guy shows up!

He'll be KY Bird #4. I think it's a red-bellied woodpecker.

He doesn't sit still enough for me to get a clear shot from the kitchen window. But he's colorful.

Here he is again, about to take off.

Then this one shows up. I'm calling her KY Bird #5.

I think she's the female red-bellied woodpecker. I'm awfully glad whatever this one turns out to be, but I'd be especially grateful if these were happy homemakers around here.

Here's #5 again, about to leave.

Finally, a fat cardinal peeping from the pot with the trowel.

Great pics V-Valley:-)

Ky#2 is an American Goldfinch

Ky#3 is a White-crowned Sparrow

Love the Flicker!

Nice day for birds in Ky ViburnumValley. I really like that puffed up Goldfinch.

Well PC you would have gotten me on the Owl, if you had gotten a picture of one. Don't have anything that resemble Owls in my collection LOL.
Actually, I wanted people to be able to see the difference between the Cedar and the Bohemian. I figure, there must be people out there, that are doing the same thing as me, come here to learn about the different birds. This is where I learned about, the Common and Hoary Redpolls, and the Blue Jay and Scrub Jay, and all the different Hawks........It's fun.

Male Pine grosbeak

We went to Brazos Bend today and took many pictures.

This is one of them, a juvie White Ibis.

very nice pics everyone!