Posted on 05/07/2016 11:01:28 AM PDT by Islander7
I had a pretty good morning. Hiked the Lake June Scrub State Park and good shots of the scrub jay and towhee. Came home to find the flycatcher posing in a ficus tree in our front yard; got his pic through the car window.
Took a bike ride and found a great egret, a snowy egret and tricolor heron in the same small stream. The snowy and the tricolor worked the great egret. They were positioned about 50 apart. The great egret spent his time trying to shoo off each of them. As one avoided the great egret, the other feasted on minnows. LOL! The great egret spent all his time and energy attempting to defend his stream from two conspiring free loaders.
Eastern Towhee
Florida Scrub Jay
Great Creasted Flycatcher
Tricolor Heron
Idaho.
My neighbor has netting hung on her window.
Cool pics. What is that bird with the lizard in its mouth?
Good idea but it would be a big job at my house. It isn’t just one regular window. It is 5 Windows floor to ceiling and they are placed on a curve.
I am thinking of getting a BB gun and shooting the SOB.
Corpus Christi skyline with gulls
What was the County first bird?
First really outstanding day of migration was today. 10 FOY birds this morning, including a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher first for my yard. Also a lifer Prothonotary Warbler that doesn’t read the field guides, and was feeding 60 feet up in a tree.
That works quite well too!
I love your photos. Thanks!
I saw my first indigo a few days ago! Beautiful bird! I’m hoping he visits more!
I also saw my first Red Headed Woodpecker in the flesh a week or so ago, and now he comes every day. He’s such a stunning bird!
Wow, that’s pretty cool! Congratulations!
I had a Robin do the same thing last year. I printed off a picture of an owl and taped it to the window. Finally stopped.
I like your shots!
It's a Roadrunner. It was sitting on the fence with this Whiptail Lizard in it's mouth and softly cooing, which means he was trying to attract a mate with a free dinner.
It was a black-bellied whistling duck. They have been gradually expanding their range northward in recent years. They are still rare for east Tennessee, though.
Nice shots. I’ve seen common yellowthroats here this year, but haven’t been able to get a good shot of one.
Bravo!
‘I like your shots’
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Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
As I said, I can’t begin to match the excellent bird photos here as I only have a little ‘point and shoot’ and no opportunity to get the excellent up close shots of the beautiful birds posted here, but I do like to take pictures, and I’m glad someone enjoyed them.
Katy
Nice!
Great Blue, Great, green(?) and tri-color herons, egrets, roseates, ibis, cormorants, anhingas, coots, galinudes,assorted ducks, and boattails along with the gators were out at Merritt Island NWR today. Plus the humidity was down (always a plus when that happens in Florida...).
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