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A Prairie warbler from July. not my best by all means, but it's a perfect ID image ;)

Although I'm sure you'll know exactly what they are without even thinking but I thought I'd share anyway :D

cape barren goose, peafowl(since they are male... peacock) and an emu ;)

Now that we have our own forum, you can also post in your own thread if you'd like. WHEN this thread gets too big(like the original), we will start a new one before it gets errors.

I don't remember seeing this one in the original thread, but I could have missed it. Taken right here in SW Wisconsin.

Man that ring necked pheasants tail has seen better days huh :)

Poor image quality, but I like the reflection.

Poor image quality, but I like the reflection.

He is getting pretty deep there, so it looks! I actually took a series of images of one swimming(they don't swim either) . It tried to land on what it thought was land, but it was actually heavy weeds. Once it was caught , it flopped around swimming for 300 feet until it got back to land ;)

That was quite a sight to watch.

I photographed these birds in St. Louis a few days ago when the sun was going down. There was a flock of them. What are they?

Do you want to move the original thread over to this forum, too?

The DEMONS of the avian word!

They are european starlings and I apsolutely hate them! They are nasty(like house sparrows) and are driving redheaded woodpeckers(amoung others) from their nest holes.

Since they nest earlier than other birds, they get there first and take over. The redheaded woodpecker is on the threatened list(if not endangered) in NJ due to them and developing.

Yeah I will move it once I get PJ to split it into atleast 2 pieces. That thread only works (due to size) when the server load is very low.

BTW.....

congrats on making 1K :)

From St. Louis, but common most places. Don't think we had one in the 1st ID post.

From St. Louis, but common most places. Don't think we had one in the 1st ID post.

Mourning dove.

Lava, the 2nd shot of these is lovely. I like the detail you can see in the backlit wing.

Here's a new one for me...

Palm warbler :) That is a pretty good shot considering they are always moving!

This little sweety followed me around the lake all day. She was completely unafraid of me, and she even sat on my shoes.

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Dude that appears to be a TRUE Muscovy duck! The angle is a hard one to ID from though.

Love the duck pic Almo!

Can you see enuf of these little ones to ID them?

Are you joking ? Give me a location of the nest( looks like an over hang, but is it near water.....) and I will give you a few birds it could be.

Seems it is mostlikely a eastern pheobe nest from my experience, but it would be close to water. Alsp mourning doves and robins nest anywhere too ;)

Are you joking ? Give me a location of the nest( looks like an over hang, but is it near water.....) and I will give you a few birds it could be.

Seems it is mostlikely a eastern pheobe nest from my experience, but it would be close to water. Alsp mourning doves and robins nest anywhere too ;)


Well, you do have the right answer in your reply. The nest is sitting on top of a porch light on the back of a cabin we rented in northern WI. There is a lake about 50 yards from the cabin.

I was going thru some old pics looking for eagles and came across this guy.

I go away for a few days and come home to a new forum, here's a shot I took saturday down on the Gulf coast of Florida.
Mike

Here's another bird from Florida, I only had my 200mm lens with me so I had to crop this a bit. I wasn't planning on doing any birding down in Florida but I wish I had put my 2x extender in the bag, I won't make that mistake again.
Mike

The area I was in was pretty built up but I saw on a map a state park on the gulf so I took a short ride there. It was called Honeymoon Island State Park and in the park was a nature trail named The Osprey Trail and this was a very accurate name. There were several nests not far from the trail and many Osprey flying around. Here's one of the ones I was pretty close to.
Mike

ps. since I named the bird how about IDing its meal

Eastern Pheobe is my educated guess :)

PALM WARBLER :) 8 out of 10 wintering warblers are palms in florida.... so I have seen ;)

I was going thru some old pics looking for eagles and came across this guy.

It's a Downy woodpecker

I go away for a few days and come home to a new forum, here's a shot I took saturday down on the Gulf coast of Florida.
Mike


Little blue heron and a snowy egret :)

The area I was in was pretty built up but I saw on a map a state park on the gulf so I took a short ride there. It was called Honeymoon Island State Park and in the park was a nature trail named The Osprey Trail and this was a very accurate name. There were several nests not far from the trail and many Osprey flying around. Here's one of the ones I was pretty close to.
Mike

ps. since I named the bird how about IDing its meal

LOOKS like a Mullet to me.

These littel ones are confusing. Found him at the edge of woods leading to a salt marsh...

That's a mockingbird.... not that little ;)

Eastern Pheobe is my educated guess :)

Baby robins. The only reason I know is because mom and dad made sure we kept some distance from them. Made grilling out on the back deck very interesting. :)

Well..... :o I was close :p

Well..... :o I was close :p

Yes you were, and your skills just amaze me!

Another bird from down in Florida
Mike

Do you know what it is.... I do :)

Prairie warbler

Yes you were, and your skills just amaze me!

Why thank you, but I must admit my skills are getting foggy from lack of birding this year.

This should be easy for you Paul...... I hear there are several in the woods below, so I'm going to spend some time there next week and see if I can get some GOOD sshots... unlike this one. :o

JS

Well..... only a redtailed hawk "kites" like that ;)

Hawks in general are secretive in nature(as are most wild animals), so getting close will take patience and a bit of luck ;)

My suggestion is the approach B moose Peterson used in the beginning in his camaro..... drive around and watch ahead. KILL the engine and coast up to your subject while still being innn you mobile blind :) It does work sometimes on perched hawks.

Another way(my favorite) is to find a hillside clearing and wait for the area hawks to come by. KNOWING your subject( it's habits, flight pattern, favorite perches, hunting grounds...) is just as important in wildlife as it is in sports :)

I knew you'd get it... :) lol, even with that bad shot. It was a 100% crop of a raw file from the 28-300mm lens, so it was about 390mm (1.3 on the MKII N sensor). The woods where they live are very small, maybe 8 acres at most. No hills as such, Indiana is flat, and this area is all corn/soybean fields.
I guess I'll just have to spend some time waiting on them to see where they go and when. The guy says there may be as many as 5 of them.

JS

Well..... they are migrating right now, but very well may stay in your area(some stay here year round)

Since you have corn/soy field, you WILL get harriers and roughlegged hawks wintering if the conditions are right. Also if the fields are VAST enough, many hundreds of acres , you may get short eared owls this winter hunting as the sun drops low ;)


Chinook Mines in Clay County Indiana in december/ january will give you a good chance at all 3 species ;) I love google !

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OK, Since I want people to learn....

Let's see who can ID this :)

It's 1/3RD the frame BTW to make EVERY field mark visible :)

I want a PERFECT ID too ;)

I will give it a few days or 2 CORRECT perfect ID's ;)

Hmmm, Interesting... I have been looking for somewhere to go. I never heard of Chinhook Mines before...I'll look that up! I had heard that Patoka Lake in Southern Indiana has Bald Eagles, and in February they have a big deal there and a day for spotting them where a lot of people show up. It's on the Indiana DNR site for Patoka Lake and C52 website which is a site for a captive Bald Eagle. This Bald Eagle was born with a defect in its wing (s) and cannot fly.
C52's Website: http://www.in.gov/dnr/c52/HowToSpot.html

In the years I have lived in Indiana I saw one owl, twice, two days apart. This past summer I had one in my back yard but could not find it. I also have woodpeckers that I cannot find no matter what I do. I see their holes though! I have pine trees in front and in back of my property, and behind that is a 17 acre field (corn this year), across the street is a 324 acre farm field as well. I'm out in farm country, for maybe 5 more years, then the developements will be here too :mad: .

Thanks for the info Paul, I'll check it out!

JS

Thanks for the homework Paul. This will give me a chance to test out my new bird book. I did get the Smithsonian book I was asking about in my other thread from earlier this week. Only bad thing with this assignment is that now I'm afraid to read the rest of the posts in this thread because I don't want any help IDing this bird. :)

I want a PERFECT ID too ;)

I will give it a few days or 2 CORRECT perfect ID's ;)



Without going through the whole thread and ruining my chances, I would say on first guess that it is a Coopers Hawk.

OK, Since I want people to learn....

Let's see who can ID this :)

It's 1/3RD the frame BTW to make EVERY field mark visible :)


My uneducated guess is Accipiter striatus aka Sharp-shinned Hawk.

Well february is the beginning of nesting season for raptors ;), which is why they do it then. Great horned owls fledge from the nest in may, while some eaglecmay fledge as late as early july(unless in FL where they double clutch at times). If you have open water in your area in winter(lakes, big rivers... DAM OVERFLOWS!!) You should be able to find an eagle there if fishing is good) I go to the hudson river NYC parks, Rio res. near port jervis NY and the Conawingo dam in maryland to see eagles in winter(if time permits) I usually can find 30 + in a day in NY and 30-150 in maryland if conditions are right)

I photographed this bird yesteday in Valley Forge, PA. What is it?

I photographed this bird yesteday in Valley Forge, PA. What is it?


slate colored variety of the Dark-eyed Junco ! They are coming down from canada to winter here in the north east.

Not sure what this is ... Seattle

Not sure what this is ... Seattle

American Robin

Found this guy a couple weeks ago.

First from winter feeder. :)

Not sure what this is ... Seattle

You beat me to it. I was going to post this one from Valley Forge, PA in the US that I took a few days ago. Are there robins in the UK?

White breasted nuthatch, but they are not considereda winter species since they are breeding birds in your(and mine) neck of the woods :)

Found this guy a couple weeks ago.

Adult turkey vulture

Yes these are both american robins . The european robin looks far different, therefore I think smartwombat was in the US(Seattle) when he took that image.

You are correct, but.... It's a 1st fall cooper's hawk :) The sharpie guess was close though, as they do look very similiar unless you know the field marks to look for ;)

Taken at the Portland Zoo.

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Things are slowing down here so I don't know how many new birds I'll be able to post so here's another rerun. I shot this down in Florida a week or so ago, these birds were not as camera shy as the ones I come across here in NJ.

Mike

I do believe that's a lorikeet of some sort, but which(if one) I don't know

The owl looks to be an eagle owl of some sort ;)

post a full frame of the owl and I will get you an ID

Mike ..

Images from FL are quite easy to get compared to the REAL WORLD ;)

I am not trying to be funny, but my experience is that it was like shooting zoo animals.

I was in Ding Darling shooting headshots of herons and egrets with a 500mm 5 years ago.

From PA...

While house sparrrows are bad for other nesting birds(wrens, bluebirds, tree swallows), I don't find them to that bad.

I feed mine even ;)

I do believe that's a lorikeet of some sort, but which(if one) I don't know

The owl looks to be an eagle owl of some sort ;)

post a full frame of the owl and I will get you an ID

This is the only other shot I have of it.

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Bubo bubo.... european eagle owl

Hey Paul...can you help me out with this bird? Can't figure it out. :)

Emily

And this one too, if you don't mind! :D
Emily

Well the top one is a yellow rumped warbler and the bottom one is a female house sparrow :)

Paul...do you mean the top as in second post?? The first post with the two pictures is the same bird...and it seemed smaller than a house sparrow...?

The first post with 2 images is a YRWA . It is far bigger than a sparrow too :)

The second post(dark image) is indeed a female house sparrow from what I see.

But which one?

Yellow rumped warbler ;) They are quite big for a warbler aren't they !

Lava, that looks just like the one I posted...but a better pic..hehe. :D

Lava, that looks just like the one I posted...but a better pic..hehe. :D

Had a flock in my back yard today...

From my winter feeder :)

Newly photographed species for me.

Heres His Brother Lava Lamp :)

Humm maybe not lol

BOREAL CHICKADEE..... new species for the ID threads :) I found a few breeding pairs in Ferd's Bog in the adirondacks(upstate NY) last summer.

young yellow bellied sapsucker! SWEET!!!!!!

I haven't seen any around in weeks(they are migrating through), so maybe you found the one I was watching for a few days ;)

Yours is also a good woodpecker .. for the east coast

Hairy woodpecker

but this is a better picture (marginally.)

grey catbird

Had a flock in my back yard today...


Oh, neat!!

And nice one with the sapsucker...:D

Another from my feeder :)

Another from my feeder :)

OH I HATE YOU ;)

One of the few birds I have never seen... yet.

Evening Grosbeak

But this one is a little better. Shot it today.

This bird was on the water with the sun hitting it hard. I spot metered on the bird, but it wasn't enough. I have an idea what it might be, but could use your guidance, swami.

Also a species posted int he first ID thread, but I like this one A LOT better.

Male belted kingfisher, pied billed grebe and a white ibis ;)

Not a very good capture on my part, i should have gone in closer , but i was excited its the first time i C a Cardinal and the light was poor :(

Only see these occassionally...

They are very hard to get in my area due to being leary, so Kudos to you !

You don't think you can fool me with a drab tricolor I hope ;)

They are very hard to get in my area due to being leary, so Kudos to you !

Like cardinals, I find it really hard to get a shot of these...

Almost like a squirrel.

Sat on your shoes ?

We've has mallards MUGGING us in Winter for food.
They can't rell bread from finger, so you have to be prepared for a little discomfort.
Plus they can't tell bread from shoelaces, which can make it interesting when you try to walk away.

Almost like a squirrel.

Blue jays are a bit tough, but try to catch a tufted titmouse or chickadee coming in to feed and you will have tough :)

Blue jays are a bit tough, but try to catch a tufted titmouse or chickadee coming in to feed and you will have tough :)

I photographed this bird today in the woods (no feeder.)

Posted one of these divers in the old bird ID post...

But I kinda like the fish. Also from today.

No fish, though. ;) It's actually a different bird than the first one.
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Little more artsy.

Little more artsy.

First I must ask how you took this snowy egret's image from below ;)

Then I must let you know that the last 45 days I have been working, counting hawks or documenting the 2 hawkwatches or watching RAIN on my day off :(

The watch is over as of TONIGHT and one week left of getting images together to making a digital slide show, powerpoint presentation and a huge project report(I am basicly just supplying the image and some help thereafter)

After that , hopefully I can find birds to photograph!!!

Finaly got a fair picture of a BlueJay after them eating a pound of peanuts :) They realy love them :)

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Superb Captures Alina :)

Paulnj i dont know who this little fellow is ,he did not fly up to the feeder he was content to stay on the ground for a few minutes , then he left as quickly as he arrived. Not a good capture for now maybe next time .

Superb Captures Alina :)

Paulnj i dont know who this little fellow is ,he did not fly up to the feeder he was content to stay on the ground for a few minutes , then he left as quickly as he arrived. Not a good capture for now maybe next time .

I think I have a picture of the same bird on page 3. Paul identified it as a dark-eyed junco. Would you agree?

I was very pleased to meet this fella.

Indeed L L i think it is a Dark-eyed Junco :) i missed that one :) and great woodpecker shots :)

You found a piliated cashing food for the winter! They DO NOT nest this time of year, but do sleep in cavities still. That is where it should be all winter.

dark eyed junco

Finaly got a fair picture of a BlueJay after them eating a pound of peanuts :) They realy love them :)


Nice shot. Yes they are fond of peanuts!

You got me on the top(1ST ) image! WHERE did you shoot that (and the 4th)?

After that we get the...

2nd.. BOHEMIAN waxwing
3rd... GBH
4th.. a bullfinch of some kind maybe???
5th.. australian pelican

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Here is a young owl that was learning to fly, it landed next to our house. Mom was watching VERY close as I took the picture. They have moved on now, there was two babies and two parents, they left after one of the babies was killed by a power line. :(

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That looks very much like a great horned owlet to me.

Oh and you mallard is domesticated ;)

Yep, it is a Great Horned, I tried to get good pics of the mom but I didn't have a good camera then.
The Mallard is actually wild, it was in a lake by a park that we were visiting. There was a bunch of them swimming with seagulls.

Can you tell what this is, Paul? I was very happy to see him, but he happened by when I had my camera set for something totally different. Still in all, I kinda like it.

Okay, my mallard seems to have disappeared! :confused: (and I can't edit that post to repost him there. The "edit" button is not showing!)

Lol, here he is again........

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Bad pics, tho' :(

Can you tell what this is, Paul? I was very happy to see him, but he happened by when I had my camera set for something totally different. Still in all, I kinda like it.


looks osprey to me by the way it holds it's wings ;)

odd that it was gone.. I edited the image back into the post for you... now you have 2 mallards ;)

looks osprey to me by the way it holds it's wings ;)

This one will help. 1st time I've ever photgraphed a wild one. Very exciting day for me. Only havd him in view for about five seconds, though.

killdeer :)

haliaeetus leucocephalus !!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember my first wild one was a great feeling!!!!

No fair on the stooping eagle shot with a osprey look to the wings! The angle to the first makes the wings look narrower too!!!!

haliaeetus leucocephalus !!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember my first wild one was a great feeling!!!!

No fair on the stooping eagle shot with a osprey look to the wings! The angle to the first makes the wings look narrower too!!!!

Since you're the moderator, you can always delete your "mistake" :D .

Here's an Osprey I was very pleased with. I spent an hour or more each day this week out in the woods and was really pleased with some of what I got: Yellow-Rumped Warblers everywhere, Catbirds, Blue Jays, and Kingfishers I still can't catch for a good photo, Cardinals, Grebes, the Kildeer and Pilated Woodpecker nest you've seen, bunch of Egrets, several Tricolored Herons from about fifteen feet away, some racoons, and an unidentified toad. More to come.

First ...... POST THE TOAD.... and tell us WHERE you live (state) as I don't remember.

Second wise guy.... I can EDIT any post , so I can PUT an osprey image there instead :D

This guy was mad that I took his favorite spot on the beach.

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It's a grackle of sorts, but whether it's a boat tailed or common grackle I can't tell for sufrom that angle. Boat tailed is my guess though.

First ...... POST THE TOAD.... and tell us WHERE you live (state) as I don't remember.

Second wise guy.... I can EDIT any post , so I can PUT an osprey image there instead :D

He's a Florida guy...

At first glance I assumed this was a Red Tailed hawk, but as I got closer, I noticed that the belly was pretty solid, no "belly band" on it. My next thought was a juvenile bald eagle since there is/was a nesting pair a few hundred yards up the valley. After zooming in on the pic in the computer, I'm thinking it's a Coopers Hawk...

I know this pic sucks, but can you give me a positive ID from it?

At first glance I assumed this was a Red Tailed hawk, but as I got closer, I noticed that the belly was pretty solid, no "belly band" on it. My next thought was a juvenile bald eagle since there is/was a nesting pair a few hundred yards up the valley. After zooming in on the pic in the computer, I'm thinking it's a Coopers Hawk...

I know this pic sucks, but can you give me a positive ID from it?

wrong , wrong and... wrong :)

Hawks in flight are my forte! This is a juvenile northern harrier.

look at the wing structure, the uniformly colored body, the darker head(with the facial mask) , the tail and those longish legs. Harriers are grassland hunting raptors who hunt mice mostly. They flying low over the field and when they see a mouse they drop down on it.

I can google it for you :)

http://www.wec.ufl.edu/extension/frogs/default.htm#

Can't figure it out though! MAYBE it's a marine toad? they are BIG , if not then HMMMM

wrong , wrong and... wrong :)

Hawks in flight are my forte! This is a juvenile northern harrier.

look at the wing structure, the uniformly colored body, the darker head(with the facial mask) , the tail and those longish legs. Harriers are grassland hunting raptors who hunt mice mostly. They flying low over the field and when they see a mouse they drop down on it.


Thanks for the ID Paul! I'll figure out some of these hawks sooner or later. :D

With time you can only get better!

I must say that it is extremely heart warming to me to see that people are interested in the nature around them.

One from last Spring , only had a 2mp camera then . Maybe if i run Noise Ninja on it i could improve it . :) Hoping to C this guy again this winter.

Great Grey Owl.

This is from a file i had at work, Im gonna dig out the original camera file and give it a go with Photoshop.

With yime you can only get better!

I must say that it is extremely heart warming to me to see that people are interested in the nature around them.


Very much so, oh Great Bowhay. :D :D That will be my main stay on my photography once I can get going real good. Matter of fact, I just put National Geographic Book of Birds of North America on my Christmas list. Hope that is a good one to get.

On that note, here is one I took earlier this year at the Salato Wildlife Refuge.

...but you can never have enought bird posting, right?

Superb Capture Lava Lamp :)

...but you can never have enought bird posting, right?

I never see enough tricolors!!!

Very much so, oh Great Bowhay. :D :D That will be my main stay on my photography once I can get going real good. Matter of fact, I just put National Geographic Book of Birds of North America on my Christmas list. Hope that is a good one to get.

On that note, here is one I took earlier this year at the Salato Wildlife Refuge.

Nat Geo is a good book indeed. I would say every person who enjoys birds NEEDS a Sibley guide too!

That is one strange looking mallard there!

One from last Spring , only had a 2mp camera then . Maybe if i run Noise Ninja on it i could improve it . :) Hoping to C this guy again this winter.

Great Grey Owl.

This is from a file i had at work, Im gonna dig out the original camera file and give it a go with Photoshop.


As I am sure you know, every year GGOW's migrate down to find food. Some years they MASS MIGRATE when the winters get harsh or food levels drindle.

I never see enough tricolors!!!

One more "environmental" photo with a little more context...

One from last Spring , only had a 2mp camera then . Maybe if i run Noise Ninja on it i could improve it . :) Hoping to C this guy again this winter.

Great Grey Owl.

This is from a file i had at work, Im gonna dig out the original camera file and give it a go with Photoshop.

Cool. I've only seen a wild owl three times and never, ever, this close.

There ya go.

Hey PM me with your exact location in FL and I will see if I can find you some OWLS ;)

I know you can find BARRED and BURROWING in the ft meyers area(cork screw swamp has a barred and cape coral is LOADED with burrowing owls)