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Originally Posted by Lava Lamp

That expression on your face in the third one is priceless.

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I agree! You should have this one hanging on a wall somewhere. Great shot! All of them are good, but the expression on your face......priceless! ;)

Liz

Frankfort MI to be exact. These gulls were spread over this park lawn chasing some kind of emerging insect. I think the majority are herring gulls (?) but I don't know what the larger brown gull is.

My brother got an image of one of these in aruba(with my camera).... It's an oriole of sorts (same icterus genus). I don't have a S.American bird book, but I can find it on the web if you really want a species ID :)

Thanks Liz ;) hopefully we hit 2000 posts ;)

Nice crowned crane !

nice images, but I can't ID the second bird.

The first looks like a common moorhen from the americas, but I suspect it's the african species of moorhen ;)

Is the second bird a cowbird of sorts?

actually there is only one herring gull.... the dark second winter plumage herring gull. The rest are ringbilled gulls(yellow legs)

I still say it's a redstart. NO vireo has a white eye ring only like this and the beak is wrong for most vireos too. If you look at these links you'll see

http://www.hiltonpond.org/images/Red...icanJuvF02.jpg (small image though)

the fall warblers we mostly get :)
http://www.hiltonpond.org/BandingParulinaeMain.html

Here's one I got on sunday, just wanted to help you get to 2000.
Mike

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Originally Posted by paulnj

I still say it's a redstart. NO vireo has a white eye ring only like this and the beak is wrong for most vireos too. If you look at these links you'll see

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I had somebody suggest a juvy white-eyed vireo. I thought this bill looked like many of the other vireo's but you know a lot more than I do about birds.Here's a closer look

common yellowthroat ;)

white eyed vireos don't have white orbital feathers though ;)

HAHAHA... I'm a bird nerd :)

http://www.hiltonpond.org/images/Vir...eEyedJuv01.jpg

This does look very close though, but the beak is too short for one to me. I see suttle differences in the head and plumage :)

Just a couple more from this weekend for the thread. Nothing spectacular, but I like the way the eye is covered over in the second one.
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Hi all, here is another post.
It is a Southern Yellowbilled Hornbill.
Sweeeeett . . . . :)

Got 1 more to add to the thread.
This is a Crested Barbet.

you know...... I really wish my area had interesting stuff to shoot in august. Migration is starting to happen(a few neotropicals and a few raptors), but not good enough to warrant driving a 100+ mile round trip at these gas prices ;)

Nice white ibis

keep them coming!

Ok, it's been a litt;e while for me, but here are 4 shots. Unfortunatly they are all for earlier this year. I have been focusing more on macro stuff and havn't really been looking out for birds, but I'll get back too it as fall aproches and all the snowbirds head back here.


http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...4-17-05215.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...4-17-05284.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1.../326541094.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...5235241098.jpg

Strange, it looks just like the moorhens around here, too.
Are they the same workdwide?

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Originally Posted by paulnj

actually there is only one herring gull.... the dark second winter plumage herring gull. The rest are ringbilled gulls(yellow legs)

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Thanks. At the same location I also caught this guy (who is named Fred according to the bikers passing by).

This one was exposed poorly. I've tried to clean it up, but still kinda so-so...

gold finch, mystery parrot(please tell me what it is), solitary sandpiper and a few black-bellied whistling ducks :)

Sooo close!

It's a female purple finch.

The parrots are actually Green naped Lorikeets, Trichoglossus haematodus

The other two are spot on! :)

I will say this is a back lit great blue with his head tucked in tight .

welcome to hawks in flight(what I watch and shoot september-november)

Adult redtailed hawk.

I shoot them at +1ev as a rule , but as we all know... lighting changes constantly outside

Well.....

That finch looks more like a first winter goldfinch than WHAT I KNOW is not a female purple finch due to the lack of the stripe above and behind the eye(the chest streaking we will leave out)

I suspect we are both wrong and it's a female house finch since it does have white AROUND the eye area :)

HERE is a female PURPLE FINCH I shot last october (resized only). I took 30 images of her atleast, so what view would you like ;)

half way down page one so here's another from sunday.

YES, though a few subspecies exist, they are everywhere but the north/south pole and australia :)

Is this the same bird? Because I don't think so :)

This LOOKS like a house sparrow, so LOCATION would be the key to the ID :) Where was this shot(habitat) because pre second molt sparrows are brab looking at times too. It is pretty late for that plumage, but some birds do rarely have a second clutch very late :)

Here's one.
Frank

And another.
Frank

And one more.
Frank

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And one more.
Frank

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herring gull, what looks to be a emu .....

Where did you find an egyptian goose though ?

BTW... The best place in Maine to find moose is on the highway when you leaving :) I was in Maine for 5 days a while back and the only one I have ever seen was at 85 MPH while leaving Maine ;)

More shorebirds.

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Originally Posted by beetlejuice

And another.
Frank

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I just have to say that when I saw this image I busted out laughing...Very very funny dude:p:D:p

From the local fish markets - cropped and sharpened lightly. Even so, they look a little bit unreal to me, but that is how they have come out of the camera.
N.B. I realise the post is distracting, but haven't had time to remove it.

I am amazed cuz she was hanging out with this guy the whole time I was watching. He even mounted her.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...4-17-05221.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...4-17-05224.jpg

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More shorebirds.

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Shorebirds are a weak subject of mine, but I am nearly positive these are both sanderlings

[QUOTE=almo]I am amazed cuz she was hanging out with this guy the whole time I was watching. He even mounted her.

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Is it that hard to believe that a male HOUSE FINCH would stay within it's race :)

Dude that finch is a breeding plumage MALE house finch(no RED in those WHITE wingbars) Believe me.... you will KNOW when you see a purple finch, they look deeper in color and have tons of it . I will give you that some house finches are deeper in color making them APPEAR to the untrained eye to be a purple finch ;)

HABITAT and location is a key factor too :)

I think these are silver gulls? they are very common in australia , so that is my guess :)

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herring gull, what looks to be a emu .....

Where did you find an egyptian goose though ?

BTW... The best place in Maine to find moose is on the highway when you leaving :) I was in Maine for 5 days a while back and the only one I have ever seen was at 85 MPH while leaving Maine ;)

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I found that goose in your neck of the woods.......
At Six Flags Safari in Jersey.
And the only moose I did see was on the warning signs.....
But I tried!!!!
Frank