Adel, love the collage!
Bsharf, that is a branch full of birds! Love the bad hair day.
Great pictures folks.
GG
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Great pics bsharf! I love all of them!
billy your so lucky to see the eagles! Nice pic!
Lots of very nice pics folks.
Last weekend I was out to get some shots of Great Gray Owls that had been spotted in the area but they eluded me while I had my camera in hand :(
Today I got some glimpse of Great Horned Owls, a female incubating eggs and a male some distance off getting some sleep for the hunt of the upcoming night. Didn't get any clear shots of either one but I'll show them anyways :)
Here the female in the nest ( well at least the "horns" are visible )
Here the male in a cedar tree, very hard to spot even though these guys are huge.
Now something a little smaller :)
Quoting:
I can now do a collage
Golden Eagle
Quoting:
Here the male in a cedar tree
Actually an arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis), not a cedar (Cedrus)
Quoting:
Now something a little smaller
Common Redpoll
Resin
(edit: add Redpoll)
This message was edited Mar 8, 2008 9:25 PM
Quoting:
Actually an arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis), not a cedar (Cedrus)
common name for Thuja occidentalis is Eastern White Cedar
Very nice pics PC!! I would love to see any type of owl!!
PanamonCreel, It's still an incredible shot of both!! Wow! You are so lucky!
Thanks, it helps when you go on a field trip with a local owl expert :)
In the same park there is an feeder area that was incredibly busy this morning, I guess they where filling up before the snow storm passes through (which it does right now).
The c. Redpoll was taken at that area.
Here some more:
A. Goldfinch
Mourning Doves
A couple of photos of cardinal.
Another one
Hi PanamonCreel,
From Standardized Plant Names, ed.2, 1942. American Joint Committee on Horticultural Nomenclature; Harlan P. Kelsey and William A. Dayton. J. Horace McFarland Company, Harrisburg, Pa.:
Quoting:
The common name Cedar is widely misapplied, especially to species and varieties of Chamaecyparis (Falsecypress; Whitecedar; Yellowcedar), Cryptomeria (Japanese-cedar), Cupressus (Cypress; Whitecedar), Juniperus (Juniper; Redcedar), Libocedrus (Incensecedar), and Thuja (Arborvitae; Redcedar; Whitecedar). This illustrates the importance of the principle adopted by the Joint Committee that a common name properly belonging to one genus should not be used for a plant of another genus, except as part of a compound word; thus for Chamaecyparis thyoides, Falsecypress is correct, not White Cedar.
(my italics)
Resin
Lovely pics PC!! The American Goldfinch looks quite bright yellow and that one Mourning Dove looks like she's smiling at you!
Marilyn, wonderful shots of the male Cardinal.
Resin, I don't really care what this Joint Committee says.
Thuja occidentalis is here called Eastern White Cedar, Northern Cedar or Swamp Cedar and that is what I will use when referring to it in this Bird related thread. Maybe a few more generations and the name will change with the "commoners" to what that joint committee wants but I highly doubt it.
Thanks Pelle
Nice Cardinal Marylin, here one from the "colder section of NA" ;)
Hi PanamonCreel - it really doesn't help to call something what it isn't! Think how confused everyone would be if I called that bird in your photo a Crossbill. Exactly the same happens when you call something a cedar, that isn't a cedar.
Here's what a cedar branch looks like:
OH man, not the juniper/cedar/arborvitae discussion again.
I say, it's an Evergreen.
Here's a fat robin, though out of focus.
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It's the harsh winds of March ablowin' here - soon we'll be in the lusty month o' May - then what! LOL
Agree Mrs_Ed, for discussions like that there is the Trees and Shrub forum and I'm not interested in that discussion anyways.
Traffic going up and down a tree :)
Oh two of my favorites! White-breated Nuthatch and Downy Woodpecker!
They both are so curious and friendly birds! Very nice pic PC!!
Nice pic Mrs Ed! I had my own American Robin when we had just a few moments of sunlight late this afternoon.
Nice shots PC and Pelle!
Here a Robin that I spotted on last weekends GGO hunt.
This fellow came North a bit too soon and is surely "cursing" that decission with tonights severe snowstorm ;)
Ooh, Pelle! Lovely light on your Robin.
Bsharf: I really enjoy seeing your water birds from sunny F-L-A!
Nice pose on your Robin PC!
I'll bet he is regretting the decision to be there.
The snow has gone, but the snow birds are still here. (Dark-eyed Junco)
Nice pic adel, mine are still here too.
I'm just uploading this for wallaby to see if she can open it.
That's fine pelle, thanks! It's under 5kb which is usually OK. Nice shot! :~))))
Very nice pics today everyone. We went driving off the main roads today and this is all I got that was in focus! LOL!
Is it Spring yet?
Ha. Dellrose! LOL Adelbertcat. That's exactly how I feel.
Cute Adel...but need an ID on that little birdie!! LOL!
Showed up in my yard today...Sharp-shinned Hawk. Thanks again Resin for the ID!
Does this tree make my rear look fat?
Heading North...but not today!
Dark Eyed Junco.
OH Rose, that hawk is so beautiful. Nice photo. How far away were you? Cute caption too.
HE showed up again...I think he's mad about me!!
Male Eastern Bluebird
Thanks Mrs Ed...I think he was about 40 feet away!
dellrose.............maybe resin can tell us.
Wonderful pics Rose!!
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