DAILY PICS VOL. 196

Great pictures everyone! I also got a nice backside pic of a Downy woodpecker

Chipping Sparrow

I still like to walk barefooted in water puddles too.

GW, Nice shot!

CB, Good one of the Downy Woodpecker!

CB, Congrats on the lifer!!!!

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Here's a pic of what I think is a Great Blue Heron that decided to fly away just as I was taking the picture. I see a pattern developing! :))

The lifer was not mine. That was Crazybirdlady.

Sorry I'll fix it. :-)

CB, I first saw the Swamp Sparrow this past Fall down the shore. Their a very pretty Sparrow!

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A Lesser Goldfinch in breeding plumage.

A dark-eyed Junco with an identity problem, it thinks it's a Goldfinch.

This one knows it's a Dark-eyed Junco.

adel, I love those (Oregon Form) dark-eyed Juncos!

We haven seen a Towhee in some years. They used to 'drink your tea' all over the place. Still plenty of woods in patches so I don't know where they are now.

iris, Cornell reports "Populations declining throughout range, most severely in New England."


too sad.

Good morning, and thanks Fellow Birders: I needed my "fix" of photos of beautiful birds, in order to start the day, and you came through. Iris, at least one of your Towhees is here, but I'm not sending him back. I have yet to see Lady T. but I'm hoping that she's here, too. A blessed day is wished for all.
Sharon

Frank, I love the dove in the puddle shot!

Congrats on the Lifer CB!

Adel, your Lesser Goldfinch so pretty. Our Goldfinch are getting more & more yellow everyday! Of course they are also leaving the yard and not coming to the feeders as much too. :(

We could share him every other year?

Nice pics everyone...love the Blues on the nestbox!

Red-bellied Woodpecker going after the suet!

OK, Iris. I'll give this some thought. LOL

He is a handsome boy dellrose!

I had gotten lazy and put the camera on auto lately...but after this morning bad pics I have put it back on shutter mode. Course I have to get back in practice now!

I had hardly stepped out the back door when the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker showed up. But since I hadn't put the suet out yet it didn't hang around long. SO just one shot.

My first Eastern Phoebe sighting for 2009 earlier today...

Turkey Vulture flying over the house.

Song Sparrow...I warned ya they were bad! lol

First Mourning Dove of the year.

All wonderful pictures everyone. Adel; your M. Dove is so cute. Mine have been around all winter here, and often I find in pair.

I love everyone's photos too! I'm especially jealous of you people that have such great photos of the woodpeckers. I see them all over on our daily walks, but they're usually on top of a telephone pole and the photos don't come out well. Apparently they don't like my fruit suet either.

More Tree Swallows

Another one

My younger Scrub Jays love to have their pictures taken every day.

Great pics guys!

Love the Tree Swallows!

Beautiful pics Duc!
I love your sapsucker Nanny.
Rose, nice red-bellied.
Adelbert, that lesser goldfinch is fab.
Frank, you were really holding out on us! Thank your girlfriend for me.

It really is spring! I had two male Hooded Warblers fighting in my yard this morning. Whoohoo! It was impossible to get a good picture. The one that stuck around was in the shadiest, thickest brush and it was already really dark and cloudy. I'm excited though, so I'm sharing this pic anyway!

Robin when the sun came out.

Crazybirdlady, your Great Blue Heron made me laugh. That's what they do when I try to photograph them too!

White-winged Dove on top and Inca Dove on the lower branch.

One more of the White-winged and the Inca both looking ruffled.

Love your hooded warbler! Boy, I'd love to see one!

I love that Hooded Warbler too!

Nice pics Elphaba!!!

A female Northern Cardinal

Mourning Dove

Another female Cardinal

Frank was playing host to a Steller's Jay this gloomy evening.

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