Posted on 12/19/2016 3:08:56 PM PST by Islander7
It was sunny and warm in Florida today. High was 86. Got a little camera and nature time today too. Hope you enjoy.
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and an awesome New Year.
I believe 2017 is gonna a great start to the Trump revolution to restore America!
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Anhinga on a pier sunning his feathers.
Great egret in the swamp (Highlands Hammock State Park)
Red shouldered hawk looking for mice.
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Loved his pics. Miss him.
“It was sunny and warm in Florida today. High was 86.”
Very jealous.
miss swampsniper.
High 30’s and slush here in the southern Puget Sound region, lots of Juncos, a few Winter Wrens, Ravens and a really large Pileated Woodpecker digging in a dead Alder tree 10 feet from me and my dog during our morning walk. Miss the Swampsniper, thanks.
Thank you for the great pics.
Don’t have pictures but I did see a male female pair of Scarlett Tanagers at the Lake of the Ozarks in central Missouri. Used to see them in Missouri back in the 60s, and I am sure others catch sight of them occasionally but this was my first sighting at the Lake.
It is interesting because they are so different from each other.
Saw a robin for the first time in Central Texas yesterday.
It was about 30 degrees.
Gorgeous... I could not live without my bird feeder.
I will have driven an extensive amount of both coasts, the Ozarks, the central plains, all over Arizona, all over southern Utah for a total of about 16,000 miles and a dozen national parks and monuments.
Concentrated on birds only at the Lake, however. Lighthouses and surf at OBX and mountains and sunsets in the Southwest.
2 Sagebrush Sparrows
4 White-crowned Sparrows
3 House Finches
2 Cactus Wrens
1 Verdin
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2 Gilded Flickers
1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
2 Common Ravens
1 Red-tailed Hawk.
2 Say's Phoebes
And 1 European Starling! First time EVER I've seen a starling out here!
Swampy always had the best pictures.
I hope everyone in the family is holding up alright. I know it has been tough.
I lost the link for the Go Fund Me. I really wish you had met the goal.
The birding is excellent in winter not far inland at all from OBX, in Hyde County. Lake Mattamuskeet.
There is an exception.
I have a mockingbird who lives in the front yard...of whom I am particularly fond. And I think that fondness is mutual because when I mow the front lawn or work in the front, he makes a big display to let me know he's around.
He will sit on the branches of my crepe myrtles and listen while I speak to him.
He is also fond of my little hanging kitchen window feeder.
Will try to capture some footage of him on my Gopro and provide a link to youtube.
Good find!
Where I work there are tons of birds. Western Bluebirds perch on the rim of the dog’s waterbowl while one bathes in the middle, sort of an avian Esther Williams movie. There’s a pair of ravens who nest there and spend their entire day talking to each other (amazing vocabulary) was well as several varieties of hawks.
I was over there with a couple of grandkids last month and saw a Jay that I called a Stellar’s and realized I was wrong almost immediately but I didn’t have the name for the western variation and I didn’t want to confuse the kids.
I think it was a Western Scrub Jay but as it was my first view, I can’t be positive.
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