I have one from today that's almost exactly like yours Nanny!
Margaret that is almost a really, really cool shot!
I have so many pics for this thread that it's just ridiculous. Today's disappointment was the Ruby-crowned Kinglet. I finally got a picture that he didn't fly out of, but it was just too dark outside.
Couple of Red-shouldered Hawk pics from this morning!! LOL
I was looking out the window and there it was...ahhh well.
Dark here too, though it may be clearing a little right now. Oh if this could have turned out....
YIKES!!!!!!!!!
Just got another series of awful hawk pics....very dark and rainy here and the camera was on auto mode.....darn it!
Best of the worst!!
I enjoy all of these photos-they're cute anyway.
An Oak Titmouse.
Ouch! That makes my head hurt...lol
Exorcist Titmouse! You should save that for Halloween.
Nanny, all my hawk shots are horrible!
I already have my disappointing shots of the day. Yellow-rumped Warbler as seen through a dirty window into the sun while the bird was in the shade. These two shots never stood a chance!
At least he has a head in this shot.
Hey that second one is not awful....
yah stop complainin', you've got LEAVES on trees!! ;-)
LOL! I've been sneezing my head off from tree pollen.
I almost attempted to doctor up that second one, but no amount of doctoring will make appear in focus.
I'm editing b/c I just noticed that even though that water oak still has leaves, the leaves in the pic are from the Mutabilis rose that's growing up in the tree. Now, I get to complain again -- why won't the birds ever perch next to a rose? They are so uncooperative!
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Well i'm glad it's pollen season somewhere!
Probably juniper pollen - they're early shedders, and have particularly strongly allergenic pollen.
Resin
Ahh yes the juniper and cedars are making me MISERABLE down here! I will trade it for a LITTLE snow and bare limbs (better to see birds with)
Juniper/Cedar is supposed to be the biggy right now. I didn't see Willow Oak on any tree pollen list, but don't you just want to sneeze looking at it? Must look worse than it is.
Just Juniper - cedars (Cedrus) pollinate in September-October, and don't have allergenic pollen. Some junipers have sometimes been misidentified as cedars, but that's an error best avoided so as not to cause confusion.
Resin
Yeah.....those cedar wannabes are everywhere! :)
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Pink and Grey Galah launching itself off a dead palm frond yesterday.
man, it got me right in the eye!! LOL
I know there has to be a duck somewhere in this pic. There was one there right before I clicked the shutter. But I sure cannot find it. I guess all this brush and moss got in the way.
This truely is my most disappointing shot. The very first time I got a chance to get a pic of a Pileated Woodpecker. This was taken along a bike path through a river bottom. At least I now know where to go and try again. This path passes through the territories of three different Pileateds. There are also lots of red-heads, downys, red-bellied and visiting sapsuckers.
I love the first shot Frank!
That first shot is so picturesque. I've seen Pileateds before and not gotten a shot at all, so good job on that one!
First shot is beautiful with or without a duck, and the second is not really all that bad. It does pass the ID test very well!
Underneath that splash is a common goldeneye
:-)
sure it is ^_^
Yeh, it's pretty obvious to me too!
Yes...that is a typical Goldeneye splash!! LOL! You crack me up Mrs. Ed!!
Headless Red-head. I guess I am getting old and my reflexes are getting slow. This woodpecker and I played a game for awhile. He would stop pecking and pose perfect just long enough for me to click. But his head would be back in the hole. Finally I gave up and went to the next red-head on the next tree. I have never seen any place with such a large population of woodpeckers. There are dozens of Red-heads there. Each declaring their territory. A lot of quearking and showing out anytime any kind of bird got within their territory. It did not matter if those birds were sparrows, cardinals, phoebes, kinglets, sapsuckers, downeys, red-bellies, pileated or other red-heads; they were ready to defend their trees from one and all. They even queark if ducks, egrets or herons flew by them. This place is criss-crossed with old river beds. With cypress and tupelo in and near the water, oaks on the dry ground and pines on narrow ridges that never flood. All this within just a few yards. There are a lot of old dead trees and huge pine and white oak.
1 of yesterdays bad pics of a Red-tailed Hawk...thru the dirty windshield of the car!
Frank, I've played that game with woodpeckers many a time! I haven't seen a red-headed one in forever though.
The elusive Pine Warbler...
Laser Eyed Mockingbird avec Glarey Window Glass
These poor pictures resulted from a sad story. We have been getting a number of ring neck pheasants feeding on the ground under our bird feeders sometimes as many as 6 at a time. On valentines day while clearing snow after the blowing snow of the 13th, I found a dead female pheasant near my equipment shed. It was obvious what had happened as feathers were stuck to the shed wall and the white vinyl siding was split. She must have been startled from the feeders and flown into the shed during the white out conditions.
Anyway I carried the body down to the brush at the bottom of my yard about 75 yards from the house and threw it in. It did not take long for the crows to find the body and we watched them eat for a while. The next time we looked there was a red tailed hawk at the body and a raven circling above. These two went into competition and we enjoyed the sight of them circling around the yard and trying to intimidate each other. In the end the hawk won and returned to feed. The pictures are my futile attempt to photograph these two through the window at extreme range for my 10X zoom. Here are a couple of examples heavily cropped and grainy.
Here is the raven and hawk in a nearby tree
That would have been an interesting scenario to watch play out. When are 2 feet of snow melted last week. I found 3 birds that must have hit the house during the snowfall. 1 each, Goldfinch, House Finch and American Tree Sparrow.
Yucatan Jay. They have a brilliant yellow beak and legs, but not in this picture.
Or this one.
oh RATS! Well the blue is pretty!!
I'm glad the hawk got a meal out the tragedy. Thanks for sharing the story eastjack.
Katlian, that bird is so cool even without a bill or feet!
