Posted on 03/05/2016 4:01:48 PM PST by Islander7
Here are few pictures from my walk along Lake Jackson today. Hope you enjoy.
Sand hill crane on her nest.
Pine warbler (I think)
Purple grackle
Cat bird
Lovely. Great job. I wish you had been at our farm today. We have a pileated woodpecker. First time I’ve ever seen one and I think there’s a nesting pair. We have lots of dead trees which we were going to clear away but not now. We also have seen green herons although not in the last few years, great herons, lots of wonderful wrens of various species, gold finches, blue birds, and the usual eastern Kansas birds - mockingbirds, red wing blackbirds, chickadees, other little finches. Scissor tails. We have two ponds and several acres of a mix of woodland and pasture.
Thanks,
I counted 4 limpkins today. Looks like we may have a nesting pair.
Also saw a black ibis. Not the juvenile dark brown; these guys were black.
Excellent! We have cardinals, tufted titmice, downy woodpeckers, goldfinch, red-bellied woodpeckers, purple finches, bluejays, nuthatches, chickadees, sparrows and juncos coming on to our deck in winter. We have other birds that don’t come to the deck or that are only here in the warm months: hairy woodpeckers, pileated woodpeckers, great barred owls, redtail hawks, sharp-shinned hawks, crows, rose-breasted grosbeaks, baltimore orioles, scarlet tanagers, blue herons, canada gueese, ruby throated hummingbirds,carolina wrens, phoebes and cedar waxwings.
Wonderful photos! Thank you for posting them and IDing the birds. I wouldn’t have known any of them, names are familiar but can’t match to birds (I know most where I live).
So lovely....Please add me to your ping list!
Wish I could have been there too.
Thanks.
I'm thinking, by where you live, it must have been a Glossy Ibis. They're actually a shimmering dark purple, but they can look blackish under certain conditions.
Where I live, we have the White-faced Ibis. Very similar in just about all aspects. In fact I've seen many WFIBs this month.
Awesome. I love these threads!
I have seen one of those, one time, over in the Piney Wood area.
Awesome, thanx!
The white ibis is very common here. They have cool blue eyes.
Thank you for the ping!
Lovely shots!
the crested Caracara is a great looking bird . thank you so much for your pictures....thanks to everyone else for posting pictures. so relaxing to view these pictures
It’s great mental health break from all the political turmoil for sure.
Stunning.
And the Turkey Buzzards are back too....
Here in S.E. Michigan, I've got lots of finches, juncos, chickadees and a few cardinals.
I hung a frozen block of bacon grease which the birds liked but when the weather turned warmer, it melted and glopped onto the ground. While the little birds ignored it, that turned into a free for all for flocking starlings which apparently love that stuff.
Where it glopped behind my deck, I can't see the starlings so I created another glop of grease off the deck underneath my finch feeders where I can sight from my dining room table with my .22 air rifle thru the back deck doorwall. Shot about a dozen of those damn starlings yesterday and today............
Our Goldfinches are gone, all but one. He appeared to have an injured wing. He comes multiple times a day to the black oil sunflower feeder. I think he roosts in a nearby bush and seems to fly without trouble.
The others left about a month earlier than usual. I miss seeing them.
I wonder if he will leave or stay. Any idea?
Are you in Lake Jackson Texas?
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