DAILY PICS-VOLUME 119

Awwww!

ditto on the awwww

Angele, those are so sweet, would love to see that in person!!!
Love the scissor tail Flycatcher Rose.
And the Barn Swallows, and Tree Swallow, I miss them.
I don't see the Blue Jays either, I know they're around but not in my yard.
Margaret I would have like to take much more pictures of the Osprey, but sitting on the side of the highway, kind of made me hurry up, and DH was anxious to get back on the road.:( But as least he stop , and am thankful for what shots I got.
great pictures from everyone.

A regular at the pond. Yellow Warbler

Margaret forgot to answer you about the stream, yes it a small pond we have in the backyard with a little waterfall thanks.
Another shot of the Yellow Warbler.

And a Robin

Nice pics burn! I love the Yellow Warbler.

Wonderful pics all.

Angele, the Quail are soooo cute. What a sight.

Rose, my education continues. I've never seen the flycatcher before.

Lovely Warbler, burn. How great to have your own stream.

Adelbertcat, just what were those Jays up to?

Another new article on that search for the Ivory-billed woodpecker.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-06-23-ivory-billed-woodpecker_N.htm?csp=AIMBot

angele, thanks for posting the pics of baby Gambel's Quail, such sweet babies!

Congratulations on getting some Bluebird babes Rose, it must be a relief after the trouble you had.

Nice Swallow shots nanny and booj!

burn, the Yellow Warbler looks a real cutie.

This was taken late on Saturday on my neighbour's roof ridge, Pied Wagtail being vocal.

About a minute later this Song Thrush was being very vocal on my flowering cherry tree, it didn't apppreciate me taking it's pic though.

Beautiful shots Wallaby, I love the song thrushes!

Thanks Wallaby...it was a relief to have them fledge! I've never seen a Pied Wagtail...very cool looking bird.

Margaret...Here's another Scissor-tailed Flycatcher...this one I believe is a male as it's tail is longer (although he wouldn't turn so I could get a better shot).

another of the female.

Indigo Bunting

I bought this metal stand at a flea market and added the clay saucers. I added bird seed in the top two saucers and water in the bottom one. I had visions of photo ops with Indigo Buntings, Cardinals and Goldfinch....this is not what I had in mind!!

lol, dellrose!

So that's where my indigo bunting went!
That is one very pied bird, Wallaby. Love learning birds of the British Isles through your posts.

If you can't beat em...join em!

A recent visitor to the new feeder stand...looks like a young BlueJay!

Perched on a nearby branch getting ready to land...

safe landing..

Common Grackle...

another...close up and personal!!

one more Grackle...

Wow. that close up reminds me of Sam the Eagle from the muppets. Very stern.

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Sam_the_Eagle


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MargaretK....Where I come from if you saw that many people together it woud be a craps game, but in this case they were coming in for food.

Thanks for the link on the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Mrs. Ed. I keep hopping it still exists out there somewhere. I don't know if it would good if we found it or not....

Great pics guys!

wallaby, Thanks for 2 of my favorites!

Rose, Those pics are excellent! Love the Flycatchers and the Bunting!

Thanks Pelle!

I'm with you Nanny I keep hoping it is alive and well and living in my wooded patch on top of the hill!

Mrs. Ed...He does look like Sam the Eagle....LOL!

Thanks all!

Wow Rose, your pics are all superb! The colours are magnificent!

I had a Great Tit today bringing a young one to feed. The female is very pale, she appeared briefly for a feed after the male had fed baby. I googled to see if I could find one so lacking in colour, found an article on Blue Tits and other Tits last year which was very wet and cold. If it's too cold and wet we don't get the moths, then don't get caterpillars which they need to feed the young. One young Blue Tit needs 100 caterpillars a day! They can have 10 in a brood, but only breed once a year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/05/eablue105.xml

This is the pale female Great Tit, a female has a thinner black line down the front than the male but this one is lacking in colour all over.

This poor Blue Tit has no feathers on it's head! The great Tit I saw which had feathers missing on one side I saw again and got a bad pic of through the window, it was bald on both sides and top too. I'm wondering if these are being pecked by other birds (to get the eggs or young) while sitting on the nest. I wonder also if the feathers will grow again as they look to be completely pulled out.

Thanks Wallaby...I read that link about the Tits. What a shame and I hope things improve their next breeding season. It would be a shame to have them endangered. Nice pics and I feel sorry for the last one. I love those Tits and also your sweet little Robins.

I am running a little behind on my pics these are from the 19th!

Juvie American Robin

This Blue Jay caught my eye with it up on the wire against the sky.

#2

I am not real sure since the sun was so bright, but I think these are a bunch of Grackles on the barn roof!

Thanks Rose. It has been cold this year at times but not very wet, and although it was very cold last year we didn't get a lot of rain in my area. Finding out this sort of thing certainly helps open our eyes more to the needs of these birds, if anyone ever asks how they can get rid of the caterpillars eating leaves on their precious shrubs etc we can all tell them leave them for the birds! Other birds eat them too, including Robins. Same goes for aphids. It nearly brings me to tears to see that poor Blue Tit.

Thanks Resin!

Great pictures everyone.
Hehe, Resin, glad to know parents of the human kind aren't the only ones that 'lose their hair' over their children.

This Cardinal looks like he has lost a few feathers from feeding the young.

A Spotted Towhee