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Leon,

You rock!

Not only did you add a post to my soon to be HALL OF FAME thread, but you are now one post closer to that magic 1000 :)

Thanks for adding your great egret to my thread that makes me smile !

Thursday starts the hawkwatch, so I will hopefully get a low goshawk, roughlegged hawk or eagle by november ;) I actually get paid to photograph them this year too!!!!

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Originally Posted by paulnj

maybe it's a forest kingfisher? This bird is in my opinion one of the kingfisher family birds(a kookaburra is one too)

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Geez you're too good!! What bird dont you know?

I have more birds, will get to them when I can!

Here ya go Paul, a couple more! This bird should be fairly easy for you. They are a very common bird here!

Have We Had One of These Yet?

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Originally Posted by Lava Lamp

Have We Had One of These Yet?

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Sure I have :)

We also have FEMALE american blackducks here coastally, though coastal birding isn't what I enjoy as much as hunting down neotropicals .

I prefer to spend my springs/ early summers chasing the tropical birds that come here to breed(namely warblers, tanagers...)

You nearly got me!!! I am not familiar with EVERY bird in the world(I seriously doubt more than a handfull of people are) and at first I thought it may be an odd looking rail from that beak and stubby tail.

BUT.......

The shape, color, beak and habitat PLUS the fact you say it's common lead me to believe it's a MAGPIE on second thought :)

Wow, you really are a bird nerd arent you!! I'll have to do some deep thinking to see what else I can drag out for you!

Well done!

It's a crap image, but i'd love to see you get it Paul.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...Birds/2541.jpg

Here's an easy one but I don't think this bird has been on yet. Not the greatest photo but I liked the pose.
Mike

tufted titmouse ;) yes, a new species indeed

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Originally Posted by almo

but i'd love to see you get it Paul.

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You are joking right? You don't really believe that I can't ID a SIGNET do you? That bill and neck are a give away!

Being as Florida has no TRUE WILD breeding population I will say if it's a US species it's a mute swan.

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Originally Posted by paulnj

You are joking right? You don't really believe that I can't ID a SIGNET do you? That bill and neck are a give away!

Being as Florida has no TRUE WILD breeding population I will say if it's a US species it's a mute swan.

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Care to take another guess?

NO!!!! BECAUSE those are cygnets :) I know I spelled it wrong :)

(Since you were at ISO 200 and 1/1000th editing in PS7)....I took the liberty of running it through CS2 to see if I was truely wrong.... NOPE :)

That file needed +.7ev dude if that's how it looked from the camera:)

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Originally Posted by paulnj

NO!!!! BECAUSE those are cygnets :) I know I spelled it wrong :)

(Since you were at ISO 200 and 1/1000th editing in PS7)....I took the liberty of running it through CS2 to see if I was truely wrong.... NOPE :)

That file needed +.7ev dude if that's how it looked from the camera:)

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No it took PS7 to make it look like that. Like I said it was a total crap shot. Still you are incorrect. They are not cygnets. I'll tell you what they are if you like, but I'd really like you to guess it.

OK..... LAST GUESS...

A hybrid between a canada goose and a thick billed murre ;)

So tell me what your swans are :)

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Originally Posted by paulnj

OK..... LAST GUESS...

A hybrid between a canada goose and a thick billed murre ;)

So tell me what your swans are :)

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Just the first one.
Branta canadensis

I will take your word for it, as goslings are that color and shape.

But of the 17 subspecies of "canada goose" including the 4 cackling geese none I know of have necks that long and bills that EXACT shape.

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Originally Posted by paulnj

I will take your word for it, as goslings are that color and shape.

But of the 17 subspecies of "canada goose" including the 4 cackling geese none I know of have necks that long and bills that EXACT shape.

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I wish I had kept the few pictures i got of them all together, but here is the mother of the goslings.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...s/23541003.jpg

The last few I put up were pretty easy, here's a pretty bad shot of a bird that was high in a tree. I cropped this to show as much detail in the bird as I could. This picture was taken back on 5/15 .
Mike

You have a breeding plumage magnoia warbler migrating through mostlikely(very few stay)

Judging by the wing panel and cheek , I would say it's a female. If the throat was visible we would have a third thing to base the M/F on, but I am pretty sure FEMALE is the sex :)

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You have a breeding plumage magnoia warbler migrating through mostlikely(very few stay)

Judging by the wing panel and cheek , I would say it's a female. If the throat was visible we would have a third thing to base the M/F on, but I am pretty sure FEMALE is the sex :)

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I was thinking Magnolia but the broken eye ring threw me off.
Mike

OK here's another one shot back in mid May, the weather has been keeping me from getting out my last few days off. I don't think this bird has made the thread yet.
Mike

That looks like a house wren to me.

Here is a head shot of a magnolia warbler from google

http://www.westol.com/~banding/MAWA_ASYM_050203b.jpg

ANYONE ELSE.... OR do I need to post :)

Another bird that hasn't been posted yet. I'm hoping to get out this weekend to get some fresh shots for you.
Mike