Swamp Sparrow
Cooper's Hawk (visiting bird feeder area, and not for bird seed)
Bald Eagle
Horned Grebe
Mallard
Ring-billed Gull (immature)
Birdy ping
Y’all get any raptors up in there? I’m a fan of the larger, predatory feathered friends. The red-tailed hawks and Kestrels are moving back north I guess, I still see a few but not like a couple of months ago.
Palm Warbler would be the second bird.
Fun. Thanks for posting.
Nice Photos!
Where do you live?
Great photos! Here’s a photo I took of a white dove in a blizzard.
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You can see his beak pretty good.
The sand crane is cool.
All we have around here raiding the feeder are blue jays, cardinals, wrens, finches and mockingbirds.
The pileated woodpecker prefers to continue destroying the maple tree.
Nice pix.
I got to carry on a conversation of sorts with an Anna’s Hummingbird that landed on a gate just outside my window. Evidently recognizing the barrier of a screen, it gradually hopped to within an arm’s length away, and stayed for about a minute while we just checked each other out.
It would have made a nice photo had not my phone been just out of reach.
Nuts.
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.
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).
Thanks.
Awesome. I love these threads!
Are you in Lake Jackson Texas?
Niiiiiice!!
I live in Mount Dora Florida and we frequently have from 3 to 5 sand cranes visit us in our back yard. They are not shy about it either, they come up to and walk past the house on their way to the front year,
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Thanks for the ping. You got some beautiful shots there. Makes me want to get my camera gear out again.
Recent sightings at my place in Oregon...
I haven’t been getting any Spring Warblers yet. Did catch a glimpse of some Tree Swallows that have returned over neighbor’s ponds this week. Was able to add a Fox Sparrow the other day to my cumulative residence bird count. Elusive bugger, was hiding in with some Golden Crowned Sparrows.