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

    We have 9 1/2 inches from the snow storm. I was able to take photos of a hawk perched in a tree that was watching the blue jays at the suet feeders. Yum! I hope the photos aren't to fuzzy, then Daughter will be able to identify and post a photo.

    Sun is now shining in the North Country.

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  • stride
    stride Member Posts: 470
    edited February 2013

    Teka, you raise a good point about the validity of rodent weather forecasting. And since robins are also not a good indicator of spring, we need a more trustworthy source. Canada geese, maybe? Or have some of those stopped migrating?

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

    Some canada geese don't migrate!

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  • nesw
    nesw Member Posts: 81
    edited February 2013

    15 inches of snow in my northern NJ spot. The juncos are in a feeding frenzy over the finch blend and breadcrumbs I tossed all over the snow. Their departure might be a pretty good indicator of spring. On the suet and block feeders I've got a carolina wren, a song sparrow, cardinals, blue jays, and both downy and hairy woodpeckers. Also, small flocks of titmice and chickadees. Of course, the occasional masses of house sparrows and mourning doves pour in and ravage almost every speck of food I have out. I see the pileated woodpeckers in the trees nearby but never on my feeders.  Would LOVE that.  This time of year I usually get one or two yellow-bellied sapsuckers on the maple tree, but none this year yet. Hey, a robin just came in! My sister in Virginia said she had a couple dozen robins for a few days last week.

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

    They don't here. They're everywhere all the time. Teka, you should have a good turnout at your feeder today.

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

    Nesw, sounds like the word got out at your house lol!

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

    I went to the shore today..these pelicans were resting..



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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited February 2013

    Oh Lisa I am so jealous of your living location so near an ocean.If we ever get to the stage of our life where we can 't travel I will insist we get a condo on one of our coasts here in Canada.

    However my daughter just told me last night at Chinese New Year dinner that she is expecting our first grandchild.Now moving away from her will be very difficult.

    thought I would post afew of my favorite bird photos that my DH has taken.Let me know ladies if I am getting annoying .

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited February 2013

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited February 2013

    Great Grey Owl

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited February 2013

    Brown Booby Dive

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited February 2013

    Today is Chinese New Year.

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited February 2013

    I have this shot framed in my Kitchen because it shows both of our loves birds and Fish.

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

    Mum..wow a grandchild, how exciting for you!!!

    You could just plan to rent a condo on the coast for a few months every year?? 

    Every once in a while I have to go to the coast, just for the fresh air often and 

    I am so lucky to only live a couple of miles from the Pacific..If I walk to the top

    of our hill, I can see it...

    Your hubby's bird photos are world famous...I just love them...this time I liked the

    owl the best..I figure he has such a talent, patience, a good camera, and an opportunity

    to travel to all points of the world...


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

    Wish I had a photo to go with this story...



    On the news last night was a report about a woman driving from, I think, Orlando to the ft. Lauderdale area. Early in the three hour trip a big bird swooped down in front of her car and she did not know if she hit it or not. The NEXT day a family approached her in a parking lot and said "something is looking out through the grill of your car." So through the wide slats of her grill was the face of a great horned owl, wide eyed and quite alive.

    The media and animal control officers arrived promptly so his rescue was successful and well documented. He is apparently unharmed but being observed closely. But it was just amazing to see his face through the grill as if he were peaking out the blinds. So cute and a happy ending.

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

    omigosh pj, what a picture that would be!

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

    I took this photo of a cooper's hawk perched in a tree that was watching the blue jays at the suet feeders during the snow storm.

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

    Saw these birds on the way to the opthomalogist








     

     

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    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
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    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

    Warmer!

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

    I guess the two birds are brants. I have never seen them here..but then again maybe I was looking in the wrong places..

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  • lewing
    lewing Member Posts: 1,288
    edited February 2013

    Yep, SoCalLisa, those are definitely brants - I see the eastern version a lot around NY harbor.  (We didn't have them in the midwest.)

    I'm loving all the amazing pictures!  My big news is that my husband and I are leaving tomorrow morning for 10 days in Trinidad and Tobago . . . so I may get to see some blue-footed boobies for real.  All kinds of other birds, too.  Both islands, particularly Trinidad, are supposed to be heaven for birders.  Needless to say, I'm excited!! 

    (I'll do my best to take pictures, but neither my camera nor - more importantly - my skills are in a league with others on this thread.  So prepare yourselves for blurry hummingbirds and tiny red dots that you'll have to take it on faith are scarlet ibises, hahaha.)

    Linda

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

    Linda, looking forward to your pix...have a wonderful time..Cool

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

    I believe this is a great white heron..



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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited February 2013

    Please take a moment to remember bird watcher extrodinaire Starr Saphir, who recently succumbed to breast cancer:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/nyregion/starr-saphir-bird-watching-guide-in-central-park-dies-at-73.html?hpw&_r=0

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

    Thanks, that was a very nice write up..RIP

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

    VR-thanks for the link. Wonderful story. Although I was exposed to birding as a child(my dad) & as a young adult(had roommates who were birders) & then my sister became a birder. I didn't start "birding" until after my daughter died. I have to agree with Starr Saphir, it does take sadness away. I'm certainly not in her league, I'm nowhere near being able to identify birds by there call. I probably should have become a "lister" or person who keeps a list/count of all the birds they've seen.

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

    OK this is just our common backyard bird...what is it?

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