Bird Watching Club

mumito-beautiful shots. Love the young owl!

Teka, a little of everything!

You've a love for wrens!

Husband received photos of this albino hummingbird in an email.

Cute!

this guy just loves to guard the golf course

Red tailed Hawks very common here in Southern Ont.

Snail Kite

Red tails are very common in North Texas. I had a pair behind house on the creek this spring.

Don't know the reason why but we have an abundance of bluebirds this year. Spring was cool, late freeze, July was wayyy cooler than normal with good rains until late month. Late July/early Aug. has been unbearable hot/mostly dry. Some showers but mostly just humidity makers. Grasshoppers are more plentiful this year though. Wonder if that's why. I finally saw a roadrunner the other day in front yard. Proudly carrying off a huge grasshopper. Keeping drapes closed mostly to keep heat out so know I miss a lot. Supposed to have seasonable temps (mid 90s) next week with increased rain. Waiting for November. Got stack of mags in mail Sept/Oct. Oh Yeah. Go fall!

Mumito - Love TinyFishy's pics. Had to look up snail kite.

Seattle has a pair of peregrine falcons who nest at the top of one of the buildings downtown. The building across from it has a cam on the nest, so you can watch them feed their chicks.

Stellar jays and a flicker in our front yard.

I visited a friend last week and there were some red tailed hawks and others putting on a show

up close and personal..right off her deck....rats, I did not have my camera

Teka, The area has an abundance of jays, but they're not so usual in town. We had flickers in the spring and then saw this one recently. Mostly we have chickadees and wrens and (ugh) crows. We see hawks from time to time. Two peregrine falcons nest on top of one of the downtown buildings and the building across has a cam trained on the nest.

I have never seen this bird b4 but I saw a Baltimore Oriole just outside the backyard yesterday. It was coming a light rain and it was feeding on the lower elm branches flying in and out. I would probably not have noticed it among the yellowing leaves except that I saw it fly in just as I happened by the backdoor. I saw more birds yesterday in the rain than I've seen all summer. That was only the 2nd largest rain we've had all year per local news and the 1st was in January. Can you say drought?

I'm sure they're migrating. Haven't seen one for a week or two and we've had them all spring and summer.

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