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A couple shots of a White- throated Sparrow playing hard to get the other day!!
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Wow, those are so close to being so good! Nice start to a new thread.
I didn't even know that I was taking a picture of a Ruby-crowned Kinglet yesterday b/c it was so dark out and I was taking the picture through a dirty window. All things considered, it's not too bad, but well it's not good either!
Same kinglet getting a closer look at the pond.
Thanks nanny_56 for the new thread, a nice opening with the playing hard to get sprarrow. Elphaba, love the cute kinglet, and boys! You've got angel trumpet in buds!!! Oh boys, oh boys! Spring is here!
I don't know what's all in this pix, housefinches? Pine siskin ect....they're all busy at the feeder.
It is all relavent Elphaba and those aren't too bad!
LOL Lily! When I looked at the photo with the brug, I thought "shoot! I thought I pruned all the dead stuff." You looked at it and saw a bud in the background! There's a life lesson in that! I love your photo. I'm not sure what you have there. I'll let the experts figure it out. The bottom right one though looks like a goldfinch to me.
Nanny, you're so right -- I've definitely taken worse!
I can't wait until I get myself a really good camera. Until then, one more pic of the Thrush. Nanny, this is the one that I meant to post on the other thread. I call it, "Get away from MY feeder, you guys!" Elphaba, weren't you the one who said that the only good photos of Kinglets you have don't have any Kinglets in them? LOL Your photos are good!
He does look a might possessive...lol!!
That's hilarious! I've never seen a thrush behaving so bravely.
Nanny, :)) catch me if you can, nah nah nah nah nah.
Ephaba love the closer look at the pond.
Lily, i get a lot of dark ones like that.
wbbirdwoman, LOL he got his point across. we see no other birds in that pic.
You only are allowed to see half the pic.
Now the curiosity is killing me!!! Burn, what bird was that? LOL.
LOL Lily I'll give you another hint, I'll show a little bit more of it. Can you guess?
I don't know what's all in this pix, housefinches?
You only are allowed to see half the pic
Ahhh, Resin is here to save the day. lol. Thank you. Burn isn't it unusual to find crow travels alone? I see them in huge flock. Noisy gergarous birds they're! Also redwinged black birds, although smaller than crows, but they migrate in large group. Then of course the grackles (?spelling) who also stay in large number.
Of course it's a Crow...burn knows I love my crows!!!
Of course you'd know Nanny, since you love em so much.
And Resin, you only have to see a leg and you know what it is..:0)
Lily when they come around here, they're usually 2 or 3 in a group, but at night fall, I find fields full of them, getting ready to go roost together.
New challenges, can you identify these lovely birds by their profiles only? Beside the usual homestead pine siskins, finches and Northern cardinals and woodpeckers, these visitors dropped by the feeder briefly,and then they were gone...
The body is rather rounded for redwinged blackbird?
All was revealed by brightening the pics (a lot!!) in photoshop . . . glossy black body, brown head . . . Brown-headed Cowbird
Resin
And the other pic . . . yep, Cowbirds again, male left, two females right
Resin
Woohooo, I've BHC? gotta go and read more on them! Thanks Resin.
You can keep my share if you want them Lily!!
sniff sniff, I didn't know those birds parasitize other song birds!!! I hope they didn't stay here long, nanny_56
Congratulations Lily! At least their a native bird.
My question is, do they chase my titmouse away. 'cuz I love to hear the titmouse sing. lol
No they'd not affect Titmice, as Titmice are hole-nesters, and Cowbirds can't get at their nests.
Resin
I have both Titmouse and Cowbirds here. Many days they'll come in at different times.
That's why I made a nest box for my wrens. They had a nest in my hanging plant and I saw a cowbird egg in there. I was too much of a whimp to take it out and yet I felt horrible leaving it there. The box I made has a 1" hole which I believe will allow the wrens in but not the cowbirds. I wish they would find it and make their darn nest there!
Since I'm posting, I'll add one of the bad pond shots from the other day.
Oooh, I love that shot of the pond with the birds. Seem like the housefinch didn't mind sharing the water with the redwinged blackbirds. The blackbirds are so colorful I think.
I walked into the kitchen and saw total madness at my tiny pond. I took these through the window. Here's another one showing more of the madness. There are a couple of cowbirds in the pic too. It was a mix of Red-winged Blackbirds, Brown-headed Cowbirds and Grackles.
Elphaba...I think both of those are great pics!!
I want to share this photo that my DH took while on our trip to Chincoteague, Virginia. It's a wonderful place to be (cost-wise) in the off-season, although the wind there (in late February) is wicked. I have always loved Mallards, but they wouldn't cooperate and swim by some pretty scenery. LOL
Great Awful pics everyone! Here my pic of a Red-belled Woodpecker that had an unusually bushy head but this was the best pic I could get!
Tehehehe, your woodpecker beats me for a bad-hair day! ROFL.
My son used to look like that when he'd get up in the morning!!
WBbw; that's a wonderful pix of the ducks. Ohh, I spotted another duck was flying into your picture on the upper left corner.
LOL, Nan. Bet your son hasn't forgot you teasing him of those days. lol.
It must have been a windy day there in Arkansas, "CBL" He's quite a trapeze artist, too. LOL
Thanks everyone. I've had the dangdest time getting a better picture of the spiky-headed Red-bellied but I'm gonna keep tryin'! No, wbbw, it wasn't windy at all so I was wondering if the bushy head was something they did to scare off other birds or to attract a mate?
It also seems that all my pics lately are blurry so I'm glad for this Bad Pic thread. ;))
Here's one of a Belted Kingfisher that I spotted this afternoon
Too bad you didn't take a pic of him during the Great American Backyard Bird Count, CBL. I don't believe they had a single pic of a Kingfisher. He's a pretty bird.
