DAILY PICS- VOL. 17

Very cute!

Did the dinner bell ring?

Room for one more?

S.R.O.

Gosh and I was happy to have 3 pairs of Goldfinch, lol.

Just heard our weather report for the next week; dark w/ thundershowers. BooHoo!

Wow, Adel!! I've had 15 before and thought that was a lot, but you have an absolute mob there!!!

Pelle, great photo of the Downy!

HollyAnn - your pics are marvelous whether as close up as you'd like or not.

Lily, love the upside down guys!

Debin, that little Nuthatch is adorable!

I put peanuts out again as the crows seem to be gone and my Steller Jays returned.

Ate the peanuts in the cone wreath feeder, then jumped to this one for more.

One more. You should have heard this guy hollerin at me when I came out on the deck with my camera!

He's awesome!! Are they really that blue???

After not showing up for over three weeks, Lance decided to pay a short visit. I think he just wanted to show off his new trim look.

Lance is still one handsome dude!

Lily, the jay is really blue, but I did lighten the photo a tad and do a slight "unsharp mask" which for whatever reason, sharpens things.

Nice pics Murmur. Next time you do the unsharp mask; look for the noise reduction also. It helps get rid of the little spots caused by the sensitivety of the senser.

Thanks, fchisolm!! I didn't even know about that - will do!

I told Lance the least he could have done was to lose his tail feathers here. I ended up with five f them.

Beautiful pics!

Love your Steller Murmur!

sparrows

This is a little different from the other doves in the yard.

chickadee

blue bird

cardinal. I guess this one got lost the first time.

Young Robins are starting to show up.

and don't come back!

Resin,

Would you kindly straighten out Forum readers as to the ID of this hawk that I hastily labeled a Red-tail?

Thanks.

From here on, I will stick to photography and leave the ID to others.

Dave

Incredible photo, Dave, no matter what the heck the guy is!!

Adelbercat, truly enjoy all your funny posts!

LOL, here goes the debate. I know what I strongly believe it is. Can't wait for Resins reply.

This message was edited Aug 20, 2007 11:48 AM

BTW Beautiful pic Dave!

Hawk looks more like a juvenile BUTLIN than a BUTJAM (these "words" are OK, I promise)

Can't tell the size for sure, but my guess is a Sharp-shinned Hawk

Alright I was going to keep quite and wait but...


Definitely a Coopers Hawk.

pelle... do you think it's big enough for a coopersf?

They can be within 2 inches of each other so I think if your using size as your decision than that could be off especially if its a younger Coopers.

But I love it because I see this Coopers/ Sharp- shinned debate all over different Bird forums.

Okay Old Ned while we're waiting for Resin why don't you share the meanings of your words or abbreviations with the rest of the folks. :-)

Thanks for the kind words Mumur.

Sure....was hoping Resin would weigh in by now and I could claim typos in the likely event that I was wrong on the ID.

There's a fairly new universally accepted set of 4-letters, common-name system for referring to birds...

example: Red-shouldered Hawk is RSHA, Red-tailed is RTHA etc.

The Scientific Name system uses 6 letters:
Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) is BUTLIN etc.

Thanks Ned! I figured thats what it was but was too lazy to look it up. :-)

Not just size. The brown streaks to me are coarse, but I don't claim to be an expert on hawks.

I'm sorry I wasn't meaning to ignore you adel. I've been looking for an old thread I started here about another way to tell the difference between the Coopers & Sharpie. Darn I can't find it.

Found it!

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/687628/

based on your info it looks like you are right and it is a Cooper's.

Has anybody seen Resin lately? I haven't at all, but I've also not been able to keep up with all the new threads that may have been started. Hope he's okay - when he's not around I miss his humor as well as his knowledge!