*** APRIL - 2007 - BIRD - PICTURES -

Yay! It is April. Time for all the Spring migrating birds to fly through Manhattan and stop over in Central Park for food. I don't have a lens that would let me get their photo's I'm afraid, but, I'll be looking at them and thinking of yoiu all..

for those of us that are * left handed * a left handed * TURKEY *

for those people that are right handed * a right handed turkey *

Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)

With my limited lens capacity I got this one today
Black-tailed godwit Limosa limosa

Terrific Ceri!

With my limited lens, I managed to capture one of the many Cedar Waxwings that landed in Central Park last week. I don't have my book in front of me to look up the scientific name. Will edit.

And nothing special, just a sweet Mallard couple in the man made pond in Central Park.

very very nice photos, ( girls ) your not limited by the

size of your lens - its how you use it

** ONE MUST PREEN ONE,S SELF TO ATTRACT A MATE **

Barry, do those Turkeys end up on your dining table at any point?

NOW ITS OFF FOR A STRUT TO ATTRACT A HEN

Nice shots Cerinthe,Smalldog and Krukab! I had a Hudsonian Godwit pass by when I was raptor counting last fall Cerinthe. Luckily a friend who is an expert on shorebirds was there,and was able to ID it. She was sort of talking aloud as it approached,asking what it was.I of course was trying to make it a raptor..finally I said its a shorebird...all yours for ID Jean! It is a rarity to see in Toronto,so am glad someone so skilled was there to ID it.

*APRIL 1RST - i was down at beach -all the ducks, gulls

and the lone blue heron all scattered - i looked to the sky

and 7 mature and 1 immature bald eagles came to beach

300 yards in front of me where tide line was - they dived

at each other -voices calling - 20 seconds and it was over

5 flew away - 3 landed 100yds from each other and called

to each other for half an hour then 1 flew off north and 2

flew off south - nature sure can be exciting in a short

20 seconds -

Found three new birds on Saturday

Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)

Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)

Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)

Eastern Phoebe..a flycatcher. I was watching the Redtailed Hawks nest when I saw this.
Shame it looked away.

It moved around a few times before co-operatively perching nearby.

[=orange]great photos, * BELLA FELINA * YOU GOT GREAT EYE i like all raptor pics- yahoo

winter wren ??

greater yellowlegs ( tringa melanoleuca

wow very nice mallard i like the way you have it in with

the vegetation --artistic

Thanks Barry - Been trying to get the right size for Boma. Lloyd and I have kind of agreed that this mallard is a mechanical decoy. No movement in several minutes except for the head and some duck sounds. No legs are visible and there are what looks like two buttons above the tail

the size they want is 450 x 320 max - its in the guidlines-

my pics are all around that size give or take a bit lol

now ya wrecked my day lol i belive you are right onblowing it up

it a fake (duck ) but a great photo

I was just going to post this and I saw Dutchman's pic! lol

well here's a live mallard

** now thats a duck !!!! - what a beauty *