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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    Randy, that's an eastern phoebe. They started showing up in your area within the last 2 weeks at longest.
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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    I'm going with an Allen's hummingbird..

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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    I do believe you are right, but I can't be too sure. I have never seen an allen's female before, but the colors look right.
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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    hmmm, in your area and from this shot it could be and allen, blackchin, costas, caliope, broadtail or even a rufus. the rufus generally breed and nest farther north but there is nothing in hummers that is set in stone. especially where you live.

    my first choices, with this shot, would be allen and then blackchin.

    your area is loaded with them. got any more shots?

    and btw, i envy your nest shots as i have hundreds of hummers but have never seen a nest.

    the fact that i live in oak woodland foothills doesn't help. i have over 60 oaks in my yard alone. try to follow a needle hummer to a nest in that haystack

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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    I haven't had much of a chance to get out so far this year but I did get to go out walking for a while on tuesday and grabbed these shots.
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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    Nice Captures Mike , is it some kind of mating ritual that they are performing ?
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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    This little sparrow has me stumped... the closest match I can find is a chipping sparrow(?).


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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    That IS a chipping sparrow and yes the tree swallows are performing a mating ritual.
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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    well, I was going to ask if this was a chipping sparrow - but seeing copy's WAY better capture, I almost didn't post it. Anyway, chipping sparrow?



    and I'll be really happy if someone gives me savannah sparrow on this one

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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    The first is a field sparrow and the second looks like a song sparrow to me.
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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    After being away for only a few days, I returned to my normal marsh/fields to see a bunch of these. Coexists well with the mallards but much smaller.
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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    blue winged teal and I bet last week they were in FLORIDA
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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    OK Master Paul i cant ID these little birds i think they are Sparrows of some kind , but i am probably wrong . They seem to be changing their plumage .


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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    These are goldfinches.
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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    Caught this little fellow this morning jus tbefore noon. He was flitting about in the trees and was starting at the bottom of each tree working his way upwards eating (I assume) whatever he was fining along the way.

    About 2 inches in length not including the tail and made a "peep peep peep' call as it moved about.
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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    Great find there! The sound they make is a bit off , but that's a brown creeper.
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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    well ok .. more of a "chip chip chip" then =P
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    I sorta liked the yellow toy here...
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    Fleeting

    These landed in a flock 15 feet from me. I grabbed the 300mm lens I had nearby and got three shots before they flew off. This one is cropped a good bit and monkeyed with in PS. Exciting for me though; these aren't local.
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    Re: Fleeting

    I am going with ring-billed on the gull and the waxwing image is nice.
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    Re: Fleeting

    Quote Originally Posted by paulnj
    I am going with ring-billed on the gull
    With the dark iris and missing red orbital ring, it kind of looks like a California gull (maybe due to a shadow). I wish the tip of the bill could be seen.

    I love that image BTW!

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    Re: Fleeting

    If it's not a ringbilled, it's a herring gull
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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    I just shot 500 frames in my back yard and here's teh best of the lot. I can ID the wood pecker I thin as a downy (white bars on the tail and smaller than the hairy -- Thanks CK )

    But the little guy that looks like a Junco (may even be) and the bigger guy that is either a Yellow Bellied Sapsucker OR a Flicker have me stumped.
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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    northern flicker, junco and 3 yellow-bellied sapsuckers.
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    Re: Early Spring 07 Bird ID Thread

    Cool sapsucker shots Jaedon! I got my first today but the bird was waaaaaaaay too far away.

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