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and a toughie...

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HAHAHA.... swallowtailed kite ;)

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Male hooded merganser

YOU ARE CRAZY!!!! I will take a wild guess and say coot due to the dark overall color. No other waterfowl that I can think of has wings that dark.

I have honestly never seen a coot fly though.... ever!

WHAT IS THIS?

Here is a carolina/ black capped chickadee. They are identical in appearance with only the call to differenciate them were the ranges overlap(my immediate area is the overlap area)

This one was between the 2 call speeds, so it could be either one or a hybrid(which alot are)

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YOU ARE CRAZY!!!! I will take a wild guess and say coot due to the dark overall color. No other waterfowl that I can think of has wings that dark.

I have honestly never seen a coot fly though.... ever!

WHAT IS THIS?

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Here he is from the front.

I'll post more tomorrow. Goodnight.

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Here is a carolina/ black capped chickadee. They are identical in appearance with only the call to differenciate them were the ranges overlap(my immediate area is the overlap area)

This one was between the 2 call speeds, so it could be either one or a hybrid(which alot are)

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Really pretty picture. The background color rocks.

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actually I AM NOT GETTING TIRED ;)

MOORHEN

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Keep giving me hell kid....;)

huh?????????? Was I correct? that is the only bird of that type with a bill that color :)

AH... a DC Cormorant :) The going away was very hard!

FULL frame cropped to 8x10 :)

I took this image at the hawk watch last october. The winds were wrong, so I chased passerines for a few minutes instead .

The BG is a wilting scrub oak and I love that dust I let while doing a quick edit last night :D

Here is a hooded merganser from 1/19/2005

It was a stormy grey day, so I added some yellow and red to the file to try to warm it a bit(may be over done?)

How about that seldom recognised tail huh ;)

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huh?????????? Was I correct? that is the only bird of that type with a bill that color :)

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Of course you were right silly...:p

You do know that this thread already has the most replies I can find here :)

And I will NEVER let it leave the first page until it has 10,000 views OR 1000 replies :D

This thread keeps my brain working between shooting/ watching nature !

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You do know that this thread already has the most replies I can find here :)

And I will NEVER let it leave the first page until it has 10,000 views OR 1000 replies :D

This thread keeps my brain working between shooting/ watching nature !

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Took this photo today. First bird of this species I've seen. I was excited...

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Took this photo today. First bird of this species I've seen. I was excited...

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Also today...

Now I can't tell you which ibis these are, but glossy would be the obvious guess.

As to your rail...

I am nearly positive you have a clapper rail there, but some king rails look very clapper like(besides inter breeding at times too)

I know just what you are saying when you say"First bird of this species I've seen. I was excited...", It has been a while since I found a new species though :(

I read the rare bird alert hoping to find a new species in my area.... nope!

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Now I can't tell you which ibis these are, but glossy would be the obvious guess.

As to your rail...

I am nearly positive you have a clapper rail there, but some king rails look very clapper like(besides inter breeding at times too)

I know just what you are saying when you say"First bird of this species I've seen. I was excited...", It has been a while since I found a new species though :(

I read the rare bird alert hoping to find a new species in my area.... nope!

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I believe that the rail is a clapper because it is a salt marsh and my books seem to indicate that king rails are freshwater marsh dwellers. The ibises were pretty far away, but dark. Maybe juvenilles? If not, they would be glossy, I would think.

More photos coming soon...

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I believe that the rail is a clapper because it is a salt marsh and my books seem to indicate that king rails are freshwater marsh dwellers. The ibises were pretty far away, but dark. Maybe juvenilles? If not, they would be glossy, I would think.

More photos coming soon...

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Here's another from today. Another first time species, too.

try this one for size

Hmm, how about this one?

What do you think it is??

Because I am thinking this is a first year PAINTED BUNTING, but the white on the tail is wrong.

Then I was thinking it's a female scarlet tanager, but the beak looks wrong slightly and the white under tail is wrong.

The only bird I can think of with that basic coloring, beak and build is A. Goldfinch, but something about it just seems really wrong to me besides the eye ring.

VERY decieving image here.

How about this?
I chose it because there's a clue in the parent :)

ah... a pet duck ;)

male manderin duck! one of the most beautiful birds in the world... GREAT IMAGE TOO!!!