DAILY PICS VOL. 170

Yes the Fox Sparrow was by a lot today !!

The Northern Flicker came over to the closer tree, but still made it hard to get a pic! But you get a nice look at the yellow shaft.



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Nice pics nanny! That Flicker looks almost stuffed to the brim! :-)

Look closely at my feet.

LOL! You all are looking way to close at these pics!!

LOL Aren't these just the most beautiful photos you've ever seen nanny? It must be the cold weather that makes that pop!

Love that twofer WP shot Nanny...Looks like a stand off at the OK Corral!

OP...LOL!!

Nice pics everyone, love those close-up shots. Here's a Wood Stork that flew over today.

Blue Jay on a feeder I made out of a iron pumpkin.

Indigo Bunting deep in the shrubbery.

Black Vulture flyover.

Red-Bellied Woodpecker coming to the feeder.

Great pictures everybody.


Female Evening Grosbeak

Hoary Redpoll?

Male Evening Grosbeak.

American Goldfinch.

Great variety today guys!!!

GP, that pumpkin feeder is so cute! Why don't I ever think of things like that....

Very handsome grosbeak Burn!

I saw another small flock of American Robins today. It was 15 degrees below zero fahrenheit. We had another clear, sunny, and very cold day. I was able to take a number of my best winter shots, of Robins, in direct sun today. A small number of Robins over winter here in Anchorage, AK every winter.

The American Robins were feeding in a mixed flock with European Starlings. Latter the flock was joined by a few Bohemian Waxwings. Waxwings are becoming scarce. Apparently this long cold spell is pushing the Waxwings farther south.

One of the Bohemian Waxwings, which joined the mixed flock. All three species prefer feeding on Black Chock Cherries, second choice is Mountain Ash, (known as Rowan, on the other side of the pond), third choice is Crab Apples.

Nice shots everyone.

I finally have a few lesser goldfinch starting coming around; but I can only photograph them through the window. They keep their distance whenever I'm outside.

Here's a black phoebe.

What a nightmare I had trying to take its picture. With all the surrounding tree branches, I had to use my camera's manual focus mode. And, just when I'd get focused in, it would fly to another branch. In the end, I finally won the battle and got a halfway decent picture of it.

I think the american kestrel is one of the prettier birds in my area. This one (a female) flew onto a tree top today that was only about 15 feet away from me; and she was very accomodating about letting me take her picture.

Burn, I love the Grosbeak!

Beautiful pics Gary!

Nanny,Rose and GP great shots!

Jane,I adore the Kestrel and the Phoebe!

Simply wonderful! I've never seen a Kestrel before.

I took this last year and just happened to come across it while looking for another photo. I thought I was crazy when I saw a duck perching in a tree. When I did some googling, I discovered the world of Wood Ducks. :)

Here's a Turkey Vulture checking out the scene.

Did you all see that we have the "Fun Random Bird" feature now? I've customized my home page to put it at the top.

It does look funny to see ducks in tree's Anita! Nice pic.

Good on the Vulture Met!

LOL, I did the same thing Marna. Didn't want to miss one.

Those male evening grosbeaks are so colorful!

Neat pics Jane...you might want to add your female Kestrel to the Bird Files.

Love the Wood Duck shot Anita.

Wow Mrs. Ed didn't see that...and will have to figure out how to move it up to the top here too! I never scroll down that far....

Carolina Chickadee right out the window...snow does not make it easy! lol

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On the suet feeder..

wheeeeeee!!!

Okay got my randombird up at the top... only took me 3 tries to get it right!!

Downy Woodpecker at the suet basket..I keep hoping a red-bellied will come over here.

Nanny, that Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker is beautiful. We just have the red.

NMJane, I'm so jealous of that Kestrel photo. It's beautiful. They're all over our area and I can't find one.

I could go on and on with all these beautiful birds-you all are amazing!!

Here's one of my many Lesser Goldfinches.

We posted at the same time Nanny-sorry. Love that last Downy too.

The American Robins are here to clean out the rest of the Toyon tree berries.

Another American Robin

Sorry about the clearity of the robin photos-I'm taking them in the low fog we've been having.

Another American Robin

Sorry, I put the same photo again and can't change it.

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Here's the last Amer. Robin