Appallingly bad pix volume 21

So sorry about the little Barn Swallow baby.
You and your husband did everything you could to protect it. Some of them won't survive no matter what you do as sad as it is...I know...I used to do a little wildlife rehab (mostly birds) many years ago.

My husband and I also had ducks, geese and chickens at one time and even their babies can run into problems. Sometimes they may be unhealthy when they're first born which is what causes the problem in the first place. At least it felt safe when it died and that in itself was a great help to it.

Swallows tend to be very sociable and generally will go to where other Swallows are. You guys gave them a nice safe place to grow up which gave them a great start to their new lives!

By-the-way, your pics are cute. There's nothing appallingly bad about them!

So where are all the horrible bird pics?

Here's a couple:

1) This male Cardinal ignored my requests to pose.

2) Shy Duck

OK, here's my contribution. Osprey – believe it or not.

Oh, Margaret, awful, just awful...but the water is very pretty!!

Ha ha. I thought so too. Nicely in focus. The osprey was carrying a fish.

:)

nutsaboutnature, Those silly Cardinals do the same thing to me. And ducks are nuts when we try to take photos for identification, they're sleeping, preeening, or their backends are in the air.

Oh Margaret, that is terrible... just terrible. :)

One of the children took this. I wouldn't say this Red-headed photo is bad, it looks nice as far as focus and such, but... This was our first day setting out bananas. Ruined a perfectly good photo. :)

Stilt Sandpiper - Northumberland's first ever. Pity it was too far away for decent pics.

Resin

Resin - Congrats on the Sandpiper!! Oh, well...sorry you couldn't get closer. The closest I've ever been to one is looking at a picture in a book.

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Oh bad disappointment on that Stilt pic, Resin.
You have all done an awful job, on some bad shots.
I won't toot my horn cause, I'm no better than anybody else.
I'm not lying, this is a YB Sapsucker.

Whoa, burn, that's awful! Nice tree, though.

Hey, this thread needs a good bumping...

"He has legs!", exclaims one of the children. Seriously... he said this. Makes a bad picture funny.



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He sure does have some LEGS!!! LOL, thanks for bumping this thread up Chillybean. I'll have some to share pretty soon. Toot, toot, lol.

Oh wait, wait, got one!

Lovely ducks... not! :)

1. I think I was zoomed in a little too much.
2. It's not a great shot, but not really bad either. It was a bad day for the bird though. He has poop on his head!

Can you even tell what they are?

You got it! It was silly to even try, but I just never know when we may come across these birds again. If I had known one was going to land in my good friend's yard while we were visiting, I would never have taken this. That was amazing. My husband judged the tree to be about 50 feet tall and we were right below that. Children were busy being children but yet the Eagle was never bothered.

They are really turning up everywhere now! I went to the Mississippi River the other day, where there will be lots of these soon, but on the way, I saw one sitting in the top of a tree on a farm, probably about 2 miles from the river. Still very close, but was surprised since I didn't see any at the river.

It would have been a good shot if the head would have been there. ;)

Bet, I know which bird that's! LOL, one of the Doves, but which?

Right on Kim, lol Mourning Dove.

LOLOL I love the dove. Or what's left of it. :D

Owl. Or Decoy. Or Beehive.

Could also be a raccoon ,or porcupine lol.

OOOOO! Porcupine. I like that.

Tehehehehehe

Or... I sure don't know. Funny.

I was centered on a Redpoll. I was... really.

BUMP

I thought this BEAUTIFUL shot of a Hummer in flight was worthy of bumping. Now, I'm suuuuure many of you could compete with that. So come on...let's see whatcha got!




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Hah, let's have a contest. lol Here is one. The GBH take flight when my JB (my gardener helper) showed who's the boss.

Okay, here is JB in action. The GBH by this time has returned to tease the boss LOL

Ooops, I meant to upload this one picture.

Oh yes...those are very nice!!

Dreadful, nuts.

Kim, no matter how hard you try to post a terrible picture, as long as you live where you do, it'll never happen. It's too beautiful.

Thanks Margaret!!

Margaret, it's very kind of you to say...thank you. Let's me try again. This is at the park. :)

I have a lot more pictures that I could post on here than the other threads...

My little hummingbird looks like he's lost his balance!

Rose, the little one has lost its balance, it's. Here are more of mine that didn't make their way to other threads.
1. Great Blue Heron caught him a big breakfast in foggy morning.
2. Reb-belled Woodpecker was waiting its turn to the seeds buffet.

Kim, I agree with Margaret. It's hard to make that gorgeous lake look awful.

Cute pic, Rose...Awful, but still cute. (actually it looks like 95% of mine. They could name this thread after me)