Post Your Bird Images Here!!!!!!!

Name that bird!

Hehehe.

American White Pelican

Great Blue Heron/ Laughing Gull

Hooded Merganser(female)

C130..............?

REDDISH EGRET

REDDISH EGRET

MALE HOODED MERGANSER

AMERICAN BITTERN

You have to do beeter than that pal ;)

VERY OLD file of mine(bad edit too) and most of my BIRDS are on slides with no scanner ;)

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American White Pelican

Great Blue Heron/ Laughing Gull

Hooded Merganser(female)

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Bad exposure/poor quality got you. That's a kingfisher with the GBH. Look again and I'm sure you'll see it.

I didn't have a clue what the last one was!

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C130..............?

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Smart Aleck!!!

I know, that you know, that that's a C-17.

;-)

Joker...

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Originally Posted by Speed

Smart Aleck!!!

I know, that you know, that that's a C-17.

;-)

Joker...

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SURE I DO..... 'CUZ it looks just like the one I sent you from galveston bay ;)

ah ha your right.... belted kingfisher

that make TWO WRONG ;)


do you need tips on exposing for backlight :)

Ok, a few more bad pics for ya. I have no idea were some of these are from, so tell me anything and I will believe you. :)

Hey there Paul!

This is some great thread..........and you've named them all.......congrats! :D

Liz

A couple more from the zoo.

Canon 200mm/f2.8 - the lens I sold and never should have. :o I miss it.

Handheld - I was able to lean on a telephone pole. The closeups are crops.

Liz

Story that goes with this one. I was on the phone and I glanced out my window - and there perched on the Hollyberry tree was a hawk. I knew if he saw me, he would probably bolt. I quietly grabbed my camera, put on the long lens and slowly opened the window - then the screen. As soon as I opened the screen, Molly the Cat must have seen the bird. She immediately tried to get in the open window, so I had to close the screen. So here I was, camera in very shakey hands - trying to hold Molly back, stay quiet and snap some pictures before the hawk took off. I was able to get about 7-8 photos before he flew away. However, they are quite soft - probably from camera shake with all the commotion - and I shot them on "auto" because I had no time to play around with settings. Also - I think these were shot through the screen.

I included Molly the Culprit. Altho she probably would have been the victim.

How about wet birds ?

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Story that goes with this one. I was on the phone and I glanced out my window - and there perched on the Hollyberry tree was a hawk. I knew if he saw me, he would probably bolt. I quietly grabbed my camera, put on the long lens and slowly opened the window - then the screen. As soon as I opened the screen, Molly the Cat must have seen the bird. She immediately tried to get in the open window, so I had to close the screen. So here I was, camera in very shakey hands - trying to hold Molly back, stay quiet and snap some pictures before the hawk took off. I was able to get about 7-8 photos before he flew away. However, they are quite soft - probably from camera shake with all the commotion - and I shot them on "auto" because I had no time to play around with settings. Also - I think these were shot through the screen.

I included Molly the Culprit. Altho she probably would have been the victim.

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Liz, I actually got 2 wrong. Not to make excuses, but they were distant bird images and nobody is perfect anyway ;)

The bird on the pole is a redtailed hawk and the holly bird is either a cooper's or sharp shinned hawk.

I will go with cooper's hawk due to heavy body(though fluffed up) and head position.

I am 99% sure about the cooper's hawk ID as the tip of the tail, nape of the neck and a few other suttle differences are all that seperates a perched cooper's from a perched sharp shinned :) FLIGHT images are much easier, but still a very hard ID ;)

I am not 100% sure, but The only bird that it can be to me is a first winter(august- march) white throated sparrow

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Ok, a few more bad pics for ya. I have no idea were some of these are from, so tell me anything and I will believe you. :)

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Flamingos obviously, but which I don't know off the top of my head

the second looks like a Gruccione Bee eater, but I am not too sure ;)

The third looks similiar to a young catbird in a way, but no zoo would have that..... GOT ME ON THIS ONE!!!!!!!

Last are blue and gold macaws

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A couple more from the zoo.

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The owl looks just like a barred owl, so if it's a NORTH AMERICAN owl , that my ID

And your penguins look like AFRICAN PENGUINS(the name of them) which believe it or not are from AFRICA :)

correct you are!!!!

Hyacinth macaws , as with most macaws, are HIGHLY ENDANGERED in the wild due to the pet trade.

I just searched the web and found a pair in oklahoma for only $22k if anyone is interested ;)

A couple shots from today, I think I have them both figured out. I have more problems with yellow birds and the second bird I know I've never seen it before but then I'm pretty new at this.

3 new birds added to my list this week Paul!

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Liz suggested that I start a thread of BIRD images to see if I can ID them ;)

warning though US species are my forte' , so don't be suprised it I can't ID your images from asia ;) I will do my best to ID as close to the actual species as I can.

POST any image(good or bad) as long as there is some detail to the bird. TELL ME ... WHERE and WHEN also :)

HERE is a goose hybrid from may 5th 2003

It is a greater white fronted/ canada goose hybrid

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Put this over in critique, too.

<img src="http://gallery.photographyreview.com/data/photography/524/234637osprey_6.jpg">

Hey Pauly

I'm very embarassed to post these very horrible pictures of birds. But they're all that I've got!

1.) Richmond, Virginia in the Spring
2.) Rocky Mountains, Colorado in the Summer
3.) Out of focus (digi P&S) Spring Richmond

Hey good luck with your A/C!

Rick

What a great way to go birding, Paul. You don't even have to look out the window...

Here is a Great Horned.

Tuna

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...tHorned198.jpg

Tuna...what time of day did you take the pic of the owl?