Daily Pics Vol. 159

By the way, that is a very nice looking cowbird pelle!

Nice burn!

Nothing spectacular here, but I'll add several pics taken yesterday of the Painted Buntings.

I set up a trellis next to each feeder so I could maybe have more photo opportunities and it worked. The Buntings like to perch on them.

Two Buntings.

At the bath.

From the back.

Two more.

Last for now. I was hoping the beautiful adult male would use this feeder, but he prefers to hide in the caged feeder, making photos more difficult.

Nice picutres of your beautiful birds Nanny, Burn and GP.

I went down the swamp this afternoon. There's still a fair amount of water in it, but is obviously drying out. Some parts are already bone dry and we're only six days into summer and haven't had any hot weather yet. It was a really windy day today, almost like the winds we usuually get in November, but didn't this year. Only decent shot I got was of a Pink Eared Duck.

great shot Margaret

Just a few Blue Jay shots...

It is snowing right now...and today is DH's 54th birthday. He HATES snow! lol

left-side

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right-side

we have had a lot of starlings going thru this past week too..just one

House Sparrow ???

Song Sparrow ??

Nice sparrow shots Adel.
Pelle, LOVE that male house finch.
Margaret, seriously cool duck that definitely does have a pink ear.
Nanny, liked all the woodpeckers and jays are fun too.

Not a great shot b/c the only time he came out of the shade, my dog started barking and scared him away. American Goldfinch, I think.

Lovely pics everyone! I have a lot of catching up to do.

Nanny, I looked through the last couple of daily pics and I have not seen if you got #100 yet... did I miss it???

Gardenpom, I am so jealous that you get all those buntings. Wonderful!

Margaret I love your pink eared duck, it's one of my favorites of your local birds. I adore his zebra stripe chest.

My first picture is the tricolored heron (the little one on the right) next to a great blue heron. The picture was heavily cropped and lightened - they were really far away and it was getting dark, sorry!!! The tricolored was a new bird for me

Heidi

Here's a little killdeer (again far away, bad lighting)

A red bellied woodpecker

Snowy egret

white ibis - new for me (very far away, bad light - again!)

Last, a group of white ibis

Cool pics everyone. GP that first pic of the buntings is cool. It looks like that one on the top perch is giving the other one a piece of his/her mind. I haven't bee able to shoot anything because it's dark by the time I get home. Howeve, I plan to shoot tomorrow if the weather holds out.

Enjoy looking at your Painted Bunting GP,they're cute colorful little birds.
Nanny, The Blue Jays are really nice, I'm so glad I have them in my yard this year.
I first heard about the Pink Eared Duck on these threads, thanks for introducing them to us Margaret.
The Herons, and egret shots are beautiful Rntx.
I don't get the sparrows in the winter time, nice to be able to see them here.
I still have the goldfinch, but they will leave soon.
The Pine Grosbeak are back, got the female today.

Beautiful bunting burn! I've never seen one up close and personal. We have finally received our first snowfall, and the visitors I've seen recently are bluejays, juncos, and goldfinches. I did see a pair of cardinals within the last few days, too.

By the way, we are moving to thread #160: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/930573/

See you over there.

rntx2, yes I did finally get #100...after a couple of errors in ID!! #100 was Hooded Merganser on 11-27-08. I have sworn I am never going public with something like that again...the pressure was soooo stressful! Thank the lord for ducks...lol

Reminds me I have to go update my yardbird.com list..

all my pics today were no good

ooo, Nanny, that's a nice fat cardinal there.

she looks a little cranky maybe a pms....


this is an awful photo, but these 2 jays are always together...like twins or something...

Well CONGRATS!! That is fantastic. What is this yardbird.com thing??

Those jays must be in love, awwwwwww LOL

ooops yardbird.net I am under nannysgarden

You can keep list here on line..for easy access

http://www.yardbirder.net/index.php

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COOL I am so joining! No one in Houston yet...

There's also ebird, and if you flag a bird as rare or whatnot, someone will contact you to confirm your sighting (did for me anyway in Vermont...turned out it wasn't a rare bird, just id'd it wrong!).

You can't just add a bird to your list though, it is more of a "scientific" tool for watching (have to put in how long you watched, numbers, where, etc).

http://ebird.org/content/ebird/about

Oh yeah, on the cornell site. I send them all kinds of reports, they probably think I have no life! I haven't had any rare birds yet.... I keep hoping though!