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[Liz]

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

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

[Chunk]

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.

[paulnj]

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

[paulnj]

Thanks Liz ;) hopefully we hit 2000 posts ;)

Nice crowned crane !

[paulnj]

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?

[paulnj]

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

[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

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

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

[Mike T]

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

[Mike T]

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

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

[paulnj]

common yellowthroat ;)

[paulnj]

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

[Lava Lamp]

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.

[7_of_9]

Hi all, here is another post.
It is a Southern Yellowbilled Hornbill.
Sweeeeett . . . .

[7_of_9]

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

[paulnj]

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

[paulnj]

keep them coming!

[almo]

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.

[SmartWombat]

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

[Chunk]

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

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

[Lava Lamp]

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

[paulnj]

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

[almo]

Sooo close!

It's a female purple finch.

The parrots are actually Green naped Lorikeets, Trichoglossus haematodus

The other two are spot on!

[paulnj]

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

[paulnj]

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

[paulnj]

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 ;)