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Post by welle on Mar 7, 2014 11:59:06 GMT 2
I can't find an old thread I started with bird pictures so here's a new one. Birds are amazing.
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Post by welle on Mar 7, 2014 12:01:31 GMT 2
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Post by welle on Mar 7, 2014 12:02:49 GMT 2
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Post by welle on Mar 7, 2014 12:08:10 GMT 2
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Post by welle on Mar 7, 2014 12:12:26 GMT 2
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Post by welle on Mar 7, 2014 12:14:51 GMT 2
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Post by welle on Mar 7, 2014 12:17:34 GMT 2
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Post by happytraveller on Mar 7, 2014 12:36:50 GMT 2
Awesome pictures !!
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 7, 2014 12:40:38 GMT 2
wow! great pics!
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Post by welle on Mar 10, 2014 11:41:57 GMT 2
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Post by welle on Mar 10, 2014 11:43:58 GMT 2
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Post by welle on Mar 10, 2014 11:45:41 GMT 2
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Post by welle on Mar 10, 2014 11:46:41 GMT 2
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Post by welle on Mar 10, 2014 12:30:22 GMT 2
It's getting late I'm going to sleep. Hope to see some of your favorite bird pics when I wake up tomorrow!
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Post by Scrubb on Mar 10, 2014 18:01:21 GMT 2
This weekend we got outside and we finally saw a few birds, although not the variety we had hoped for. Anyway, on Saturday during our walk we saw: a lot of these: (actually, we saw Bohemian waxwings and that one is a cedar waxwing, but it's a nice photo) and one of these (note the long bill - it's a hairy woodpecker): and a couple of these (note the short bill - downy woodpecker): and one of these:
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 10, 2014 18:12:00 GMT 2
amazing pictures! both. always amazed at the pics from Scrubb (and hubs?)
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Post by Scrubb on Mar 10, 2014 18:57:31 GMT 2
Love Welle's pictures.
annie, it's usually my husband's pics I post. Of these birds I posted now, though, only 2 are his shots.
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Post by kuskiwi on Mar 10, 2014 20:37:30 GMT 2
Great photos. Thanks.
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Post by rikita on Mar 10, 2014 23:18:10 GMT 2
i like this little fellow that visited my balcony one afternoon ...
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Post by welle on Mar 11, 2014 3:00:07 GMT 2
Love it!
Scrubb, your pics were the first thing I looked at this morning on the internet. Great way to wake up. Would love to see a waxwing and that type of woodpecker up close.
Riki, do you know what kind of bird that is in your photo? Love how the focus is on the eye.
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Post by Voy on Mar 11, 2014 4:08:21 GMT 2
I think Riki's one is a gold finch, just starting to get it's summer feathers..but Pero and Scrubb will know
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Post by Scrubb on Mar 11, 2014 5:02:23 GMT 2
It could be a goldfinch - the beak is ok - but I really can't be sure. I think it would be a juvenile rather than a male out of season, though. Pero can probably tell you for sure - he's better at IDing than I am.
We saw a big flock of bohemian waxwings - when they fly in the city they wheel through the sky in great flocks, then all descend onto a tree that has berries. Then there's several minutes of constant movement as they fly to the tree, pick a berry, fly off to another perch to eat it while others fly to the berry tree; then they all take off at once and wheel through the sky to the next tree they decide they like.
Where we were in the bush, they broke up into several smaller groups, each one focusing on a different set of berry bushes. They are such attractive birds (especially the bohemians which have colour on the inside of their tail that is missing on the cedars).
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Post by sophie on Mar 11, 2014 5:45:32 GMT 2
Scrubb, one of the funniest sight I have ever seen was a flock of cedar waxwings drunk on fermented rowan berries. It was in the Okanagan, and we had a fall and early winter with several freezing/thawing sessions so the berries were nicely fermented.
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Post by welle on Mar 11, 2014 10:12:23 GMT 2
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Post by rikita on Mar 11, 2014 15:55:36 GMT 2
i don't know much about bird types, but i was also told it is a type of finch. (a grünfink in german, i think)
hehe, cool photo welle ...
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Post by happytraveller on Mar 11, 2014 20:56:35 GMT 2
I dunno how you do it Welle, but you always find the best piccies on the www !
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Post by welle on Mar 17, 2014 10:16:30 GMT 2
Thanks HT!
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Post by welle on Mar 17, 2014 10:17:20 GMT 2
Imagine you look out of the window in the morning and you see this: It's your lucky day!
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Post by welle on Mar 17, 2014 10:19:00 GMT 2
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Post by welle on Mar 17, 2014 10:21:16 GMT 2
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