DAILY PICS VOL. 100

Haven't seen many raptors around here lately so I thought I'd start us out with this old pic of one.

Would anyone like to guess what type it is? I'll let Resin tell you whether its right; I'm off to take a much needed nap.

Hopefully I'm on the right thread this time. I went to Scott River because I had heard Rumors that the Blue Heron had returned to their nest, but found an empty nest.

While there I got some long range pics of an Osprey.

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A Brewer's Blackbird.

And a Bullock's Oriole.

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My guess on the hawk is Coopers.

beautiful color on the Oriole

I'd go Sharp-shin, as the legs look quite slender (sharp shins!) and the bill small too.

Resin

Here's a Peasant working the fields . . .

A late spring snow storm dumped a record breaking 18 inches on us, in the last 24 hours. But, that wasn't enough to stop a pair of Chickadees from apartment hunting in the yard.

I would guess Cooper's too.

Love your pictures, Pelle, Adel, Resin and Gary.

Was Out on my deck this afternoon, and was surrounded by Redpolls. Lots of chirping, actually very loud, I was only about 3 feet away.

Another Common Redpoll.

A Grackle

And A Dark-eyed Junco

Couple pics of the Northern Flicker doing some excuvating.

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Very nice pics guys!

adel, I love the Ospreys and Orioles!

Resin, Love the Pheasant!

Love those Redpolls burn!

Nanny, Good one of the Flicker!!

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Waxwings came by again today.

I can't remember if I posted this the other day. Anyway, here it is now.

Thanks Pelle for the new thread!!

I love your pheasants too, Resin!

Well if you did Mrs. Ed, we don't mind seeing it again!

Congratulations to all involved in helping us reach Thread 100! Keep the great bird pics coming!

Great pics everyone!

DH took these of the Wild Turkey that's been coming for weeks to eat the bird seed that I put out.

They were taken this month.

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It is late but wanted to thank you Pelle for starting the new thread and I love the pic you posted!

Congratulations on thread # 100 everyone...I am happy to have been able to participate!

Great pics so far everyone...and Sybil...I know sunnier days are headed your way!

Long day today and I should be in bed but wanted to post something before this thread ran out!!! Here is a Starling that was in town today!

This is where it was attempting to build a nest.

Great pictures everyone!

Today I added another new bird to my life list ... the Wilson's Phalarope.

They were a fair distance from shore and it was almost sunset; so my pictures didn't turn out very good. Even so, I don't recall ever seeing these birds on this forum; so I decided to post a couple of the pictures I took.

Here's a picture of the whole flock.

Here's as close as I could get (with a lot of cropping) to one of the phalaropes,

In addition to this being a new bird, I couldn't quit laughing as I watched them. They have the most unusual feeding habit, spinning in circles, which creates a vortex that helps raise food to the surface. Seeing the whole bunch of them spinning around almost made me dizzy.

I found this video that shows one of them feeding.

http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/votacio.phtml?idVideo=15441&Steganopus_tricolor

Can you imagine seeing 30-40 of them doing this all at once?

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Love the pictures everyone. Congratulations on Thread #100!!

Cool shot of the flicker building the cavity nanny.

Turkey is beautiful Marilynbeth.

What a funny and unusual bird, phalarope, Jane.

Wonderful pics everyone!

Hi Marilynbeth, Nice Turkey!

Rose, Very good shot of the Starling!

Congratulations Jane on the new bird!

Very nice pics GP and Mrs Ed!

I was very happy to see the female Hairy Woodpecker back again. Hope a male comes around soon.