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In Iowa, since the floods, many of the farm fields still have not had a chance to dry out and drain yet. There are a group of great blue herons that have taken up residence in some of those soggy fields near me. Here are some shots of them:
Here's a picture of four of them from a distance. They are getting small fish and also a lot of frogs that came out of the river and now live in the field water!
In that shot above you can see where the farmer has replanted part of his field, but I'm not sure how the crop will do because it's so late.
This shot is my fave because I love the reflection of the heron in the still water, even though it is a bit dark.
Claire
Grackle staring.
Close up view of the colorful feathers on a Grackle.
Nice pics Claire and GP!
The Blue Jay juvies are so much fun to watch! I have really payed attention to things more this year. Iit is astounding, if you think about it, all the things babies in the wild have to learn! I have really enjoyed watching the learning process!
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Juvie cardinal
I often lurk and just skim posts, but love looking at the photos everyone posts! Thousands of awesome photographs posted in this forum!
nanny_56 - This photo is adorable: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=5295283
I get bluejays at my feeder all day long. There is a family of 7-8 of them that are quite entertaining at times! And such colorful birds!
And this photo http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=5295290 - I just love for personal reasons. Thanks for posting these today! :-)
I have a couple more from my South Dakota trip that Resin ID'd for me.
Black-headed Grosbeak
Upland Sandpiper at the Valentine National Wildlife Refuge in Nebraska.
Thanks Becky... I understand ;)
Very nice photos Elphaba!
Great shots and pics everyone!
Thanks for sharing!
Marilyn
Great to see something beautiful in all this flooding.
Nettie the House Wren has fledglings now!
One was being very vocal!!
White-breasted Nuthatch shots(2)
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A couple of very fussy Gray Catbirds saturday morning for breakfast!
Lovely pics everybody, including those from the previous thread. I took this yesterday in King's Park, a 400-odd hectare bushland reserve and botanic gardens on Perth's doorstep - literally a five minute walk from the CBD. This is a Port Lincoln Ringneck, also called a "28".
If anyone has problems viewing the pic, let me know. I've re sized to "small" but it took an extraordinarily long time to post. Oh, and please note that although the bird is a bit out of focus, the grass behind it is beautifully crisp and clear.
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Nice bird! No problem opening the pic (DG automatically downsizes very large pics).
Yeah, a very common and very annoying problem with autofocus, it always locks onto the most distant object in the field of view. I've got hundreds of crap pics of things where there was something further back that it locked onto. I don't know of any way round it (apart from getting a more expensive camera with manual focus!).
Resin
Gulp! I did focus manually - it was a hire camera as stage two of me purchasing a digital SLR. I'd only shot a dozen or so images when I took this. Nice grass though, isn't it?
Great pictures everyone! I love looking here.
I do not have any new pictures. Been working too many bird watching hours. I do have many young birds coming in.
My brother sent me this picture this morning. He lives in a quite populated area, but has 5 acres and a couple mini horses. He said there was something wrong with this hawk because it let him get close for a picture. It was watching the minis. I wrote back and said that maybe his eyes were bigger than his stomach. LOL
I was out walking around in the backyard when this Baltimore Oriole showed up. I was able to sneak a couple shots before it saw me!
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While I peeking at the oriole the Red-bellied Woodpecker was peeking at me! lol
Very cute nanny!
cparts,I love that shot!
Margaret,He's beautiful!
The Port Lincoln Ringneck is beautiful Margaret, so is the grass, lol. The Rosella on the other thread is in the Flinders Range too, I remember as a young child travelling to Adelaide seeing them at a place I was sure was called Rosella, lol, don't think there is.
I did manage to load the pic but it look time, and although this site resizes in pixels it doesn't downsize the kb size enough unless you do it first. That pic is over 10.5kb which often wouldn't load, anything over 5kb is difficult to upload or enlarger for those on dialup. If you have Nikon's Picture Project, try transferring the pics in a 'medium' quality (half way on the sliding scale) to your 'My Pictures' in jpeg fromthe 'File', that gives a much smaller file to start with between 100 and 200kb, then a 'medium' resize does the trick for uploading. They don't look any different on the computer and it makes life a lot easier, as well as takes up less space on your computer.
It got to 74F, over 22C here yesterday, with sun! This baby Blackbird was soaking up the heat, it knows me by now as the daddy keeps asking for cat food to fill it up.
I took some pics of daddy Blackbird feeding baby under the rhododendron 2 days ago but had to use a little flash. Tips for focusing Margaret, use the centre 'dynamic area' for Focus and Metering with 'P' or 'S', 'spot' used in both will work well too for small or even larger objects but yours might be a little different with so many focus points!
I wonder if I can get all this in there..
Ooops....don't think so!
Such cute pics wallaby!
Love your blackbird fledgling Wallaby, and that parrot Margaret! It's so fascinating to be able to see birds from all around the world here!
Here's another pair of goldfinches at my niger feeder.
Sue
Thanks pelle :)
Here's another that turned up yesterday and today, a darker one, looks like a male.
Thanks knip, I haven't seen my Goldfinches for a while, should get some niger seeds. Your feeder looks like a five star hotel! Dull but warm here knip, is it up there too?
The young Song Thrush come from under the Blackcurrant bush again yesterday, sat on the fence with a telling purple tinge to the beak, lol.
Such a cute picture Wallaby. My blackcurrants are a favorite food of the catbirds in my garden. ALthough I did not get any pictures of them red handed (red-beaked?), I did have little telltale blackish-blue "leftovers" all along the top of the wooden fence, with seeds in them that were a dead giveaway. I hope they enjoy my blackcurrants as much as I do!
Claire
Wallaby... those are really cute pics!! And the Song Thrush is beautiful!
knip..I should be used to it by now, but am alway thrown bu your goldfinches!! They are beautiful!
Yes very warm here today. I had to stay off work with a bad back so couldn't enjoy it :(
