Those embarrasingly awful pics, Vol. 4

LOL

Lookout Resin, Margaret's after your jokester job.

:0) Margaret.
A Mourning Dove in a hurry to get out of the shot.

Hey plantlady, just saw on the news that it was snowing in Katy - WOW

What the h***????

Really!!

or how about the phantom titmouse????

LOL nanny.

Love the phantom titmouse...

Interesting Hawk pic???
Lol at the phantom titmouse,

I have know idea what happened in the hawk pic...weird! I think the forces are against me. lol

Head turned to face away from you - that's the back of its head there.

Resin

Ahhh. yeah, that is the lighter part ....thanks! Now I 'see' it. LOL
Is this a Cooper's? I think I need to go get glasses checked out....

Check out the bug in this gal's mouth! If only she would have ventured to the sunny side of the tree! I think the bug is a Giant Wheel Bug which is a beneficial. I hate it when one bug eater eats another one!

Kind of hard to control that!!

Best that I could do with the ducks flying over the other day....

They just - but only just! - pass the i.d. test: Mallards

Resin

Here are 2 from last month. Red-bellied woodpecker (male)

2-

Those are a good example of where they got their name!

That second one is still pretty good considering!

Snow was falling today. Dark and dreary. If there had only been enough light to get a larger DOF this might have been a good shot of these house sparrows waiting for their turn at the feeder.

LoL Resin nothing passes by you.
good ones pelle
A Goldfinch flew in as I was taking this one, of the Evening Grosbeak.

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Burn that pic is soooo artsy!!!
Frank, I don't think I've ever seen such well behaved house sparrows!
Pelle, I rather likes those shots!

burn that is a COOL pic.

That is a keeper burn!! I just would die to see an Evening Grosbeak!!

I think...mind you THINK...from the sound they were making that these are Sandhill Cranes.. AND I got 2 shots to boot !!LOL

#2...YIKES

Sorry, those two don't pass the i.d. test!

Resin

The usual take off shots. Tufted Titmouse

male Northern Cardinal- I like the legs and feet.

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female Northern Cardinal

Gee Resin..I had such faith in you to be able to ID all things flying!! lol

That first one is... hmmm...interesting pelle...very nice legs & feet! :)

Nanny, you fail the test!!!! LOL Thanks fro your comment of the Evening Grosbeak. I'm afraid , by the looks of it they 're going to make me declare bankruptcy soon. Only had a few last year. This year, I could count easily 50+. Good thing the Starlings didn't stick around, when they came.
Elphaba and Flowerjen thanks.
Pelle,Good bloopers.
Here's my bad blooper, first male Pine Grosbeak see, this winter, and I missed the shot. Tried to work wonders with it but didn't work.

I've got to dig DEEP into my archives and see if I can find a picture I took in say, 1984 of a tree full of Evening Grosbeaks on spring migration. First and only time I've seen them.

Ethereal is the word that comes to mind, Nanny.

Nice chain Pelle. Good and sharp. Seriously though, those two Cardinal shots are still OK. Cute little feet.

I was just driving home from the beach and missed getting a shot, good or bad, of a Kookaburra at a bus stop. It would have been an award winner.

Nanny! Sandhill Cranes?! Ya, right! You're just trying to beat me to 150!

Pelle, those cardinal shots are pretty cool. Your challenging yourself to try cool motion shots now, huh!

Don't worry Elphaba they are already on the list! lol

They're not on mine! I'll have to get my behind out this weekend and find some sandhill cranes!

Every time I go to my Mom's, I try to get a picture of a Tufted Titmouse.

This was the closest I could get and blah!

but not nearly as bad as THIS one.

LOL, they are tough to get!