Excellent photos, everyone.
On Sunday, I encountered an Indigo Bunting and a Blue Grosbeak in close proximity to each other. Unfortunately, because of depth of field, one wound up blurred. The Blue Grosbeak is the blurry one. And, I only got one photo of the Indigo Bunting.
But, here is the Blue Grosbeak who was a lot more accommodating.
Very nice pics Linth!
Congratulations on the new birds everyone! This is an exciting time for all of us!
Linth...love your "bluebirds"!!
The Orioles are panic eating in the rain today here is a Male Orchard eating at the jelly and orange feeder.
Baltimore Oriole male.
Another in the rain.
last Baltimore.
Female Rose-breasted Grossbeak showing me her better side.
A long shot showing 2 male Rose-breasted Grossbeaks at the feeder.
The Pine Siskin is still here!
Downy Woodpecker from yesterday!
Beautiful pics Rose! I love all the differnt birds!
Stunning Magpies wallaby!
Burn, I like the ducks taking a walk!
Beautiful orioles rose.
Beautiful shot of the bunting linth! I want a Blue Grosbeak too!
My latest obsession! I now reportedly (DH) have three males.
I didn't even see mine yesterday..boohoo!
Gray Catbird is here alot though, enjoying the jelly!
Couple of male House Finch
You all have been moving WAAAAY to fast for me. lol. Nanny, I love the brown thrashers, and have never seen them at my feeders either. I usually hear the rustling leaves before I see them, they are so funny scratching and hopping around in the leaves....
I know there are always hawks around, but they seldom visit and perch while I've got my camera in hand. This beauty landed in the honey locust tree this AM and then flew off to the plum tree. I can't give a positive ID, but I suspect it was a sharp-shinned the way he maneuvered among the tree branches. Not surprisingly, the rest of the backyard birds went scrambling on its arrival. I can't be sure, but I think he went away empty-taloned this time.
Looks too big to be a Sharp-shinned.
I would say its a Coopers Hawk. Nice pic!
BTW, Do you know about the new Bird Identification Forum here at Daves?
Theres an announcement w/ the link lower down in a post.
Super pic of the Grosbeak Mrs Ed!
Nanny, Love the pic of the Catbird !
Thanks, pelletory for the info about the forum and link as I'm not yet familiar with the new Bird ID Forum. I joined Daves last May, but just became an active member last week. I see now that I certainly wasted the past year by not getting involved earlier.
I certainly wouldn't argue about it possibly being a Coopers as the red-tail is one of the few I feel I can ID with certainty.
Here's an action shot of the hawk leaving the locust and heading to the plum tree.
Hi thyme, The Bird ID forum was just created the other day. :-)
Congratulations on becoming a subscriber!
The California Quail have all paired off. .............They have a reddish cast to them I've never noticed before.
A couple of in flight Steller's Jays
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This one thinks it"s a flag pole sitter.................for you youngsters out there, flag pole sitting was a fad that predates tree sitting by many years (1924-1929 ).
I haven't a clue as to what this one has been up to.
It's raining today so am sorting trhough the pics on my computer. Found these from like April 30th that I never posted.
Male Eastern Towhee
Wow, that is a great shot of your jay adel!
Back of female EasternTowhee. She wasn't going to turn around for nothing!!
Wow great pics guys!
adel, As always I love the California Quails and Stellers Jays! The first flight pic is awesome!
Nanny, Love those Towhees! Hope to see a male here soon!
Nanny ... Thanks for starting the new thread.
All I can say is, "WOW" ... It looks like everyone is getting lots of new and returning birds. Geat pictures everyone!
As always, I'm overrun with doves and house finches. Yesterday I got a shot of some doves at my ground feeder. The picture quality isn't very good; but it shows the 3 different varieties of doves that are eating me out of house and home (Inca, White-Winged, and Mourning).
This Curve-Billed Thrasher caught my attention because its beak was almost twice as long as usual. Close-up, you can see that the beak crosses instead of coming together normally; but the thrasher didn't seem to have any problems eating.
Just for comparison, here's an old picture of another Curve-Billed Thrasher with a normal beak.
You are all working overtime and have enjoyed looking thru all the birds being posted.
It finally quit raining and took a few in poor light today.
Here is a Male Cardinal.
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Female Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
A couple of Common Grackles doing their thing! She is busy gathering nesting materials and he is wanting to play house. She finally sent him on his way and I think I heard her say "Not now...I've got a headache"!!
Immature Baltimore Oriole (male). Standing up for what he loves best!!
And lastly an adult Baltimore Oriole.
OMG Jane I can't believe the beak on that poor guy! Great pics!
Hi Rose, Glad to hear your rain stopped, wonderful pics!
This [hawk] landed in the honey locust tree
