Daily Pics - Volume 135

Mockingbird.

Cardinal.

2nd Cardinal pic.

Blue Jay.

Grackle.

Must be finch day...Gold Finch

They were really hard to see at first, they blended in so well.

Fixin' typo's..I am gonna move that dang 'u' key!

This message was edited Sep 7, 2008 9:05 PM

Great images everyone. .

Male Red Wattlebird. This guy was coming and going from a bee hive in the limestone cliffs along the river's edge. It would dive into the cavity which was out of my sight and come out a few seconds later with a bee in its beak. It did this several times whilst I was watching and I've seen him there before. These large honeyeaters are insectivorous nectar feeders, but I've never seen one take bees before.

White-cheeked Honeyeater. I thought I was taking shots of a New Holland Honeyeater and it wasn't until I viewed the images later that I realized it was different.

Great pics everyone!

Love the Wattlebird and Honeyeater Margaret!

Juvenile Dotterel, today.

Resin

a molting Bluebird is the best I have right now!! lol

Resin Is that an "upland" bird?

I spotted this young Great Blue Heron in a channel and saw it alert on something on the bank, so I figured it was some sort of rodent. I don't think I knew they ate mammals.

The honey eater and wattle bird are great. I love Bee eaters (used to see them all the time in the NC Zoo's African pavilion aviary, when I volunteered there)
I sure miss the Bluebirds that came to my feeding station every day & lived very near. Can't imagine where they've gone since they are year rounders here in NC. Perhaps some of my gardening and other birds coming around the back area now have frightened them away.(????) I still go out nearly every morning & evening calling with meal worms, but they do not come anymore. ;-(

Song sparrows have showed up.

There have been some rare bird alerts recently in the Pacific Northwest, and it's causing quite a stir. Thought you might get a chuckle out of the following.

Subject: [obol] The Birder Richter Scale


The arrival of a South American flycatcher in WA state got me thinking about the degree of rarity of unusual species and how one might explain to a non-birding spouse, significant-other, your employer, etc. why you need to disappear for a while at a moments notice. Here it my proposed scale:

Mild Temblor- felt county wide with minimal interruptions to family life, work, etc., e.g. a Northern Parula in Coos County.

Small Quake- felt throughout a major region in the state causing many more interruptions, e.g. Broad-tailed Hummer in Lebanon.

Moderate Quake- felt throughout the entire state, making work place interruptions more common, disrupting family gatherings, etc., e.g. Ruby-throated Hummingbird & Little Blue Heron in Oregon.

Large Quake- felt throughout an entire region, causing wide-spread chaos throughout the region, e.g. an easily seen Whiskered Auklet or Long-billed Murrelet off the coast of either WA or OR.

Great Quake- felt throughout the entire country, causing worker productivity to drop across the nation, resulting in many doctor's appointments to be cancelled or re-scheduled, immediate abandonment of family gatherings, unplanned airflights across country, etc., e.g. Variegated Flycatcher in WA.

So Mike and MerryLynn have single-handedly caused widespread sick leave, many cancelled doctor's appointments, loads of missed meetings, and general mayhem. Nice job!

Merry migration all,
Tim R
stuck in Coos Bay

Resin that Dotterel is so lovely!

Tiger,Great catch!

Nice pic burn!

Hope you come back online with lots of pics Resin!

Aw resin, that's a cutie. We'll miss you!

Thanks Pelle,
This Little Song Sparrow is causing quite a splash on the lily pads.

More splashing

Still more splash

All clean

Nice pics burn!

That's a cute series burn!

Beautiful shots everyone!
Linth, what a great start! I love that second shot of the imm. little blue heron because you can see how their legs bend the wrong way. That always amazes me.
Tigerlily, cool shot of the heron eating the rodent!
GP, I hardly ever see house finches either, so I think that's great!
Resin, love that photo and boy are you going to be missed. I'm sure I'll be misidentifying birds all week! -- like this one which I think is a Great Crested Flycatcher.

Here's a nice behind of what I think is a Tufted Titmouse.

A little blue heron.

Very nice pics Elphaba!

Some of this years hatch

California Quail

Thanks all, last post before I disappear for a week!

Yep, that's a Great Crested Flycatcher

Resin

Love those quail adel !

Woo hoo! Resin's away! We can call our birds anything we like without fear of reprisal. This could be called "Bald Eagle with baby", but in fact it's a Eurasian Coot and chick on the nest. (I posted this or similar a few days back but have trimmed it to show more detail).

adelbercat, cute quail.

Elphaba, the crested flycatcher is beautiful.

Burn, I always enjoy your stream shots. The lily pad pics of the bathing Song Sparrow is just so sweet.

LOL....Margaret you are Baaad, acting up when the teacher leaves the room!!! I really like that pic! Dark and overcast here due to rain overnight.

ROTFLOL Margaret! Thats a precious shot!

I missed some from last week...not that they are that good, but man there is just not much going on today here!

I was so surprised to see this parent & fledgling Chipping Sparrow on the 2nd!

I see we have an aussie trouble-maker!

Cute fuzzball!

Starting to see flocks of geese flying over

I can't type today...LOL

This message was edited Sep 9, 2008 12:41 PM

A Song Sparrow!