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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited February 2013

    Lisa, he's a beaut! Curve, you're right about that, much to my great disappointment ;-)

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013

    I saw this little guy hiding in the hibiscus bush..



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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013

    Cora, I meant to tell you how much I liked the pix of the shore birds...great shots...

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013

    Saw this guy this morning on my walk, wonder what he sees under his wing.



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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

    What a cute photo!   Do you always take a camera when going for a walk?

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013

    Just about!

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

    Daughter always takes a camera when hiking in the woods.

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  • stride
    stride Member Posts: 470
    edited February 2013

    SoCalLisa, I love your pics. That last one is so funny. Showed it to my husband, who said, "It's the yellow feet that really complete it."

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013

    It is fun to watch the birds' morning ablutions..

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  • Jaytee
    Jaytee Member Posts: 1,211
    edited February 2013

    SoCalLisa, I love that word 'ablutions'....going to use it in a sentence today...to my son, I drive him crazy sometimes using old fashioned words and phrases.  He accused me once of making up the word 'kibosh'.  :)

    Back to the birds...I just wanted to say that I have so enjoyed looking at all the pictures you ladies have been posting.  Its a beautiful bird world out there!   Have a lovely day everyone.

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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited February 2013

    I'm heading to the gulf coast in a couple of weeks. I'm anxious to see my favorite pelicans and other shorebirds. Last year I got lucky and saw a large flock of roseate spoonbills along with some ibises and black crowned night herons. The spoonbills startled and took off in a giant pink cloud (but came right back). Took my breath away. We also see sandhill cranes and the occasional Whooper.

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  • coraleliz
    coraleliz Member Posts: 1,523
    edited February 2013

    auntienance-here are some night herons

    Juvenile night heron

    another juvenile

    adult night heron at the local slough

    Spoonbills & ibises, I'd love to see. Have fun on your trip to the gulf!!

    ETA: these are Black-crowned Night Herons

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013

    Do you think this is a night heron..the coloring is different from yours..?

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013

    oops guess not..looks like a green-backed heron

    took this one near where the blue heron hangs out

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013

    How about this one...it was kinda far away with my old old camera

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  • coraleliz
    coraleliz Member Posts: 1,523
    edited February 2013

    SoCal- The first bird you posted is a Green Heron. The 2nd bird you posted is indeed a Black-crowned Night Heron. Since you live so close to Baja, maybe you also get the Yellow-crowned Night Heron? There was one a couple of years ago at the "slough", unfortunately I only read about it & never saw it.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013

    I will have to keep an eye open for that

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  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 25,402
    edited February 2013

    Lisa's yellow footed bird is a snowy egret... At least on the east coast. Beautiful pictures.

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  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited February 2013

    Gosh I'm so jealous.  I might (wish me luck ladies) try to get DH out to the nearest state park for a bird tour. I don't think its something I would try by myself. But the Nature Center in Fort Worth does have some birding and can get there in about 25 minutes. DD went to nature camp there 15 years or so ago.  Something to look forward to.  I've seen the house finch again, but I will have to get out bird book to identify female.  I think I misspoke and called it a house "sparrow".  Mostly just English sparrows, goldfinches, an occas. dove and the usual crows and blue jays. The black birds seem to have gone elsewhere.  No robins or meadowlarks.

    Winter has left the building. The FW Stock Show (used to be the "Fat" Stock Show but fat is not politically correct nor is it good for marketing HA HA) usually has at least one episode of sleet/ice during its run.  I'm thinking it should be just about over; it started Jan 18.  Not a thing like that and no evidence in the long range forecast. But weatherman did say he'd seen in snow in April here.  Don't remember that (but he has been around forever to my best recollection).  There was a TOAD on the porch last night.  I do see them unhibernate (if that's not a word it should be) themselves and then rehibernate, or at least not be on my porch.  That is one of my favorite things about living in the country.  We had a little green frog that spent most of the summer on my houseplants.  Don't see them too often up in the yard.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013

    Cora, where is your slough?





    Luv, you should be on some birds' migratory paths? No?

    Hi PJ



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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited February 2013

    We have gray tree frogs and green as well. We have found green ones under toilet seats on three occasions and one fell in my hair once as I was coming in the door. It was so small it was difficult to get out without hurting it (hair was much longer then.) I had one that hitched a ride in on the houseplants and lived the whole winter inside. Nearly gave me a heart attack when I was watering one day. Last year we had a gray one in the kitchen. We finally figured out he was living in the watering can spout and came in when we brought it in. good thing I think they're cute!

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

    This is a photo of a northern shrike taken from on-line.

    Unlike most other winter birds, the northern shrike is generally solitary. Shrikes often impale their prey on thorns or barbed-wire fences, returning to eat their meals later.

    I remember years ago, Gram and I, watching a shrike terrorizing any creatures that came near the bird feeders.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013

    Anyone know what this one is???

    I don't




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  • coraleliz
    coraleliz Member Posts: 1,523
    edited February 2013

    SoCal-It might be a western kingbird  http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Western_Kingbird/id looks like he has some yellow on his underside. I originally thought maybe a Says Pheobe, some of them have light colored heads but their wings aren't this dark. Anybody else want to guess?(I'm assuming you took this pic in California, because knowing that will narrow things down).

    Teka- those shikes are mean!! How can such a cute bird be such a terror? We get them in the winter both the northern shrike & the loggerhead shrike. I guess not all shikes migrate in the winter.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013
    ?. i

    Actually, I took it in Montana at Glacier NP, I just had never seen one

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013

    I just wish I had known I would get into birds..on our many, many trips, I would have seen so many more,,well shucks

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  • auntienance
    auntienance Member Posts: 4,216
    edited February 2013

    Clark's nutcracker maybe? It's a little hard to tell.

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  • coraleliz
    coraleliz Member Posts: 1,523
    edited February 2013

    Maybe a GrayJay http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/77/overview/Gray_Jay.aspx

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013

    here is a different view



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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited February 2013

    I saw this one on the coast...but couldn't get a good photo..any clues??



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