Daily Pics - Vol 114

Or a Belted Kingfisher?

It wasn't that big, maybe the size of a crow? I wasn't really close. What I first noticed is that it kind of hovered like a humming bird does, and then dove. I'll look up a Belted Kingfisher. Thanks for your help!

Kestral?

I looked up both Kestrel and Belted Kingfisher, I don't really know what it was, hope to see it again, maybe with a camera in hand. Too bad it didn't bring the golf ball out that I had just hit in to the lake! Thanks!

I'm happy to see and hear that I've still got catbirds in my yard. The one in this pic was kind enough to pause for a few seconds on the fence post while I took its picture. It appeared to be pulling sentinel duty.

After one failed robin's nest, it appears that we now have two new active nests. I'm also seeing more that a few territorial issues cropping up.

A Northern Cardinal in the early morning sunlight .....

This thread just zoom by so fast. enjoyed everyone pictures.

An American Goldfinch, taking off.

Thanks Nanny and MargeretK
Another American Goldfinch.

I think this one is Hairy Woodpecker.

Grandmaggie, thanks for the turtle ID.

Burn, how I wish I could grow a crab apple. What a lovely picutre of the American Goldfinch in the beautiful tree.

Hi dellrose. Those babies look so snug in the nest. Out into the wide world before long, eh? The downy kid is gorgeous.

crazybirdlady, I have also had problems posting images in some of my files or even opening some files and I've found what is working is to copy the image I want to send into another file (I've been putting them into "my documents") and then "opening" it. Hope this works for you. Also hope it made sense.

Hello pelletory.

Bur, that is a Hairy.

MIne female Hairy has been a regular the last few days AND that is no the norm around here!

Hairy Woodpecker too!

Crow Fledgling... I love them!

Thanks Nanny for ID, I wasn't too sure, couldn't remember the size, when I took the pic, and the size of it's head and beak seems small, that why I was confused.

Margaret, thanks, the crabapple are spectacular this time of year. Sorry you can't grow them. I've seen hummingbird going for the nectar on them, this afternoon.

bsharf...
Eurasian Collared-Dove...Note the dark over-all color....especially the tail. This species is breeding very well and expanding in many parts of the USA
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q37/oldned/eucd.jpg


Ringed Turtle-Dove..much lighter color over-all ....with white tail. Not known to be successfully breeding anywhere in USA now.
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q37/oldned/eucd_DSC.jpg

There are hybrids between these two and many plumage variations in escaped cage-birds.

Recent versions of Field Guides are mostly up-to-date on these.

This message was edited Jun 2, 2008 11:45 PM

What terrific pictures you all have!

It's time to start the new thread. Here's where we're going:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/857784/

Oh Burn. Hummingbirds in the crab apple. Stop it!

Hi Old Ned - looks like the name inaccuracies are persisting there - the bird you have cited as "Ringed Turtle-Dove" is correctly a Barbary Dove. Also the first is correctly Collared Dove, no hyphen (a hyphen before a capital letter is very bad grammar!!). Bit worrying that Sibley gets them wrong, too!

Resin

Resin....Here's how a pretty good website called Zipcodezoo handles it:

Streptopelia risoria
(Barbary Dove, Ringed Turtle-Dove)

They list 107 species and subspecies for this genus. Way too much hybridization and escaped cage birds for any clarity.

Agree with the hyphen thing also...thought about it too late.

Old-Ned

Heres the link to the new thread

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/857784/