Winter 07-08 Bird ID thread.

[Jaedon]

PAULNJ!!! I need help.. on the first 2 for sure I think I have the last one right but since I am already picking your brain I figured I'd throw an easy one in for ya =P

I have no idea on this one but I am guessing Grey Jay from the birding guide I have in front of me



Possibly a Great Horned Owl or a Long Eared Owl... very bad shot I appologize but it was one of only 2 frames shot before he kept flying out of range of a better one.



And lastly I am about 90% positive this is a Juvenile Bald Eagle.

[mjs1973]

That first one looks like a Norther Shrike to me.

[Jaedon]

Northern Shrike it is. Never seen one of those guys before. Gotta do some research about them now. I am now about 80% sure it was a Great Horned and 100% sure that the Eagle is definitely an Imm. Bald

[mjs1973]

Check out this guys blog. About 2/3 of the way down this page, he talks about the Northers Shrike, and even has some video of one that landed very close to him.

http://www.birddigiscoping.com/2007_12_01_archive.html

[Loupey]

PaulNJ is currently experiencing computer technical difficulties. But I'll stick this thread to get some winter species going.

[paulnj]

Yeah....computers suck!!!!

Northern shrike, long eared owl and that is a 2nd winter bald eagle.

[Loupey]

Welcome back to the real world

PC - i.e. Bill Gates - related issues? I've heard so little flack from Apple customers that I'm starting to believe them. Just might have to buy a family iMac and see...

[paulnj]

I work with an apple farmer.... those are the only ones aloud in my house !

[AgingEyes]

Saw this yesterday. What is this bird?

[paulnj]

european starling....

[AgingEyes]

european starling....

European? Geez, that little guy is long way from home

Very special though.

[paulnj]

They are in the US by the millions as vagraints. trash birds because they displace rare cavity nesting birds(red-headed woodpeckers, bluebirds...). If not for bluebird boxes, most bluebirds would be homeless .

[Jaedon]

I am almost tempted to shoot them off my feeder all the time... but I just throw snowballs at them instead.

[paulnj]

My bird feeder at work has taken more 12gauge bird shot than seed ...shhh

We welded it up on a rainy day and hang it with a chain.....

[AgingEyes]

My bird feeder at work has taken more 12gauge bird shot than seed ...shhh

We welded it up on a rainy day and hang it with a chain.....

Oh, so they're the bad guys. I didn't know :blush2:

[paulnj]

They are amazingly beautiful with all those colors under the right lighting though.....

[Jaedon]

I cannot tell if this is a dark morphed RT or if it is a Broad Winged hawk.

[paulnj]

I don't even need an image to answer that question

You would be hard pressed to find a broud-winged hawk ANYWHERE in Canada on october 15 and don't think you would find one in Texas at that time either most years.

Redtailed hawk for sure.

http://www.hmana.org/species/spec_bw.php

[tufcat]

EZ Juan.

[paulnj]

Ah, but a very nice image of a white Ibis though !

[jfelbab]

I took walk through the Six-Mile Cypress Preserve in Fort Myers the other day and came across this guy. I think it is a Green Heron but how it got that name is a puzzle as it sure is short on green. I see a slight-blue green tinge on the back.

[paulnj]

That's a green heron alright.

[AgingEyes]

This fellow was sleeping up on the tree about two storeys high. I think it's some kind of owl but don't know what exactly. I thought the ears look like those of a cat. Then somebody told me they were horns. Horns? But, it was windy up there and so, I think, the "horns" look bent.




It could look sharper but I was too lazy to take the tripod off my back :blush2: It was dark up where it was, too, with all the branches and leaves around it and so I threw in some fill flash.

Oh, I was told there was another one sitting on the other side of the tree, too.

[AgingEyes]

Sorry, I've changed my mind but couldn't delete this post :blush2:

[AgingEyes]

What about this heron?




It's not a blue heron, is it?