Daily Bird Pics - Vol 368

Black Capped Chickadee

Tufted Titmouse

Another Tuftie

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Two Tufted Titmice (allitteration)

Nice shots Nanny, Hack and Buttoneer!

Buttoneer, Yes that is a Brown Thrasher.


Happy New Year Everyone!

My hubby saw something this morning he couldn't identify, I went to see if I could see what it was, but it flew too quick(like they do quite often)! He said it looked like a blue bunting, but it don't usually come this far north, what could it have been, there are too many sparrows for the bluebirds, could it have been a blue bunting that somehow got lost and found our suet feeder?

Thankyou every one for all the great bird photos.

I do have 35 or more Goldfinches at the net-sock type , Nyjer, feeders. They eat a lot.

And 50 to 60 Calif. Quail, plus the always here HO SP. and HO finches. A song sparrow or two, and various other sparrows. Was really neat to see the litt Saw-Whet owl a couple of times. And of course the Sharp Shinned Hawks know where the feeders are.

thanks again everyone for taking the time to send photos along. Zero here this morning.

Donna

An Orange-crowned Warbler finally showed up at the suet feeder when I was actually watching.

Finally got a pic of the Brown Creeper.

Pine Siskins finally showed up, too.

Just a couple of Brown-headed Cowbirds.

Nice shots everyone!! It was warmer yesterday so no bird's in the backyard..except this Brown Creeper.

New Year...New Snow.

Spotted Towhee

That towhee sure stands out against the snow.
Great shots of the brown creeper Burd and Nanny.
Hack, love the pine warbler especially. You really have bright ones.
Buttoneer, love the thrasher!
bsharf, love those roseate spoonbills. Nice shots all.

Went with friend yesterday who wanted to get to 400 birds in Texas for the year! He only needed 6 more and he got there. I got 9 new lifers! It was a horrible day, cloudy, foggy, rainy. Hey Resin, we saw Purple Finches! ID'd by 6 other big birders too, so not just crazy me. There were half a dozen and we got a good look at them.

Here was the other excitement for the day, a Prairie Warbler.

Here was another new one -- Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow.

We went all over the place from Bear Creek to Katy Prairie to Galveston. Wet everywhere. This shot might have turned out if I didn't have condensation all over my lense! A Red-shouldered Hawk.

Here's a 3-fer -- a cormorant, a herring gull and a ruddy turnstone taken will the ferry was docking.

Last one, a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Elphaba, So nice to see those birds we only see in the summer/fall. Love the Nelsons!

Great shots everyone!

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WAY TO GO ELPHABA!!! Congrats on all your new birds!!

Nice shot everyone!! Nice to have them to look at today.

Happy New Year Everyone and thanks for all the nice shots posted here.

Burd...thanks for the great start!

Buttoneer...welcome to the BW forum...hope to see more of your birds.

Elphaba...congrats..you go girl!!

My New Year gift from the farm was a glimpse of this Great Horned Owl in our wooded area.

another view.

As I was leaving the area 3 Bald Eagles flew over and I got a shot of one of them.

I cropped his feet and you can see that he has some damage to his talons.

edited to say..I meant I cropped a photo...not his feet...LOL!

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WOW....How awesome is that GHO!!! AND that eagle is not too shabby either! lol

Way to go Rose!!! Great job!

Happy New Year everyone! Great start to the new thread Burd! The close-ups of your Downy are wonderful!

rutholive... all the best to you, and ditto on being very careful until your surgery!

Duc... I love that White-crowned Sparrow... such detail!

bsharf... your photos are great! Those Anhinga are so interesting! They are like snowflakes to me... they never look alike!

Hack... your cardinals are beautiful! I really like the Pine Warbler too!

Nanny... I always love your Pileated shots! I sure wish we could entice them to our balcony!

Buttoneer... your Cardinal in the tree is so nice... nice and plump!

thebestmissy... you have a great variety of birds, many that I don't get to see! Nice!

Burd again... that Brown Creeper is outstanding!

adelbertcat... love that Towhee!

Elphaba... you have a nice variety of new ones too! I love the images of the Nelson's and the Blue-grey Gnatcatcher!

dellrose.... What a wonderful New Year's gift to see the GHO! Nice pics! Wonder what happened to the eagle?

My most recent visitors that I could get pics of...

Male Downy Woodpecker

A new visitor to us... Pine Warbler

Song Sparrow

Remember Rumpus??? The Carolina Wren with no tail?

Guess who got a new tail for Christmas?

Yay!!!

I soon won't be able to tell him from the others, but that's OK...
I'll remember him!

This was just taken yesterday...

First time to get Mr. and Mrs. Downy together...

Nice ones VA!
Glad Rumpus got such a good present.

Great pictures all. Rose, how wonderful to get the picture of the owl. I only ever saw one in the wild!!

Here is a little Dee doing its Titmouse imitation.

And another little Chickadee.

A Female Cardinal from today.