DAILY PICS VOL. 181

Pelle, love the Cardinal with the peanut!

Grackles are really pretty, a nuisance, but pretty.

GG

Nice ones Pelle..that Cardinal cracks me up! I didn't think I had any Grackles 'til I checked out the front yard!!

Igor the local Bald Eagle has emptied out the yard so can't count for awhile...here are a few pics from yesterday.

Female Cardinal from the brush pile.

Male Cardinal from the same area.

White-throated Sparrow, same area.

another,

My first Sharp-shinned Hawk!!

Back at home at little male Downy.

Last one, a beautiful female Eastern Bluebird in the late afternoon light.

OMG Rose! You take such great pics that I wonder why I even bother trying!

Here's my Orange-crowned Warbler.

The Pine Warbler nearly tipping the feeder.

Darn it Elphaba, that is so cool that I'm mad I gave away that feeder like yours. I'll have to remember where I got it.

Goldfinches eating me out of house and home!

Chipping Sparrow

Wonderful pics Rose! Love the Downy.

Elphaba, Those Warblers are adorable!

border, My squirrels are eating almost as much thistle as they lick at the portals.

Very cute Chipping Sparrow!

Really, not just a pile of leaves. There are over a dozen birds in the picture. Kind of reminds me of when I go to an aquarium and I'm fascinated by the flounder exhibit. "It's just an empty tank." And then slowly you start to see all the fish.

LOL borders!! Kind of like Where's Waldo?

Yesterday was a nice day for pictures. Can't say the same for today, blizzard condition out there, all my south facing window are covered in snow, and have tons of birds in the yard.

A Pine Grosbeak from yesterday.

Border , I like that ceramic feeder.

Another pic of the Pine Grosbeak.

A plate full of Redpolls.

A Black-capped Chickadee in the Birch tree.

Such cute birds burn!

My camera battery is giving me fits; I hope it's not failing.

Here is just some of the dark birds hanging around.

Part of them in the yard. European Starlings, Red-winged Blackbirds,
Brown-headed Cowbirds and Common Grackles.

Here is a handsome Red-winged Blackbird.

I am on the lookout for RWB's!

I see a particular bird from time to time in a certain area on the way in/out of where I live. But not a place one can stop to take a photo unless you want your car totaled...and DH DOES NOT want that!! LOL

I had suspicions on what is was. LAst night we were heading off to go to Lowes over in Avon, and there it was. My best look to date, since I wasn't driving at the time. Came home and looked it up and I spotted me a Loggerhead Shrike!!!! So a new bird on the list...now if I could just get a pic of it....

In the mean time...seeing lots of sprong mating behaviors here. I have seen male housefinch feeding females, and nuthatches feeding one another. And I think these 2 Red-bellied Woodpeckers were in negotiations thursday!

Great shots...Pelle love the Cardinal picture!! It is funny looking...
Dell love your Sharp-shinned Hawk...I'll post mine too.
Elphaba I think you take beautiful pictures!
Gosh I wish we had Redpolls here they are just too cute!

Here is my Sharp Sharp-shinned Hawk I think he came just so I could count him in!! Although I do think he was looking for breakfast!

Beautiful shot luvs!

Thanks!!

Great pics today everyone!

Elphaba...thanks but I am very jealous of your Warblers and you take great pics!

Pelle...Now I know where all my Grackles, Starlings, RWBB and Cowbirds! Last year for the count I have tons and today it is really quiet!

Congrats on the Sharpie luv!

Burn & Border...I think you two are hogging all the birdies!

Good luck on your quest Nanny!

Here's a Starling from yesterday.

Pelle looks like your ready to bake a pie, as in Mother Goose:

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye;
Four-and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie!

When the pie was opened
the birds began to sing:
Was not that a dainty dish
to set before a king?

Great shots everyone. Luv, way to go with the hawk photo. Really nice shot.

Although a fair day, today, I stayed in and performed some Valentine's Day chores, like hanging a mirror that was sitting and waiting to be put up for about ........ 5 years. I don't like to rush into things !!! My DW must wonder what I did wrong .......

Hope everyone is having a great day .........

Thanks Linth~cute photo!!

LOL Gary! See what you've started with these songs Elphaba!

Great pics Rose and Linth!

Happy Valentines Day to all the birdwatchers!

Larry, Moe and Curly

Can't forget Shemp

Red-tailed Hawk

I see this immature Bald Eagle frequently, and when it takes flight it's joined by another.

Red-tail Hawk

Love the Eagle shot Tiger!

I just love the little Chestnut-backed Chickadee's. They've been here all winter this year, after just a fly through last winter. They have finally discovered my feeders, but still seek the Incense Cedar seed often.