*** APRIL - 2007 - BIRD - PICTURES -

** RUFUS HUMMING BIRD (SELASPHORUS RUFUS )

THE FEMALE PIC ON TOP WERE TAKEN A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO

THE MALE ON THE BOTTOM WAS LAST SPRING

CALIOPE HUMMING BIRD (STELLULA CALLIOPE )

IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE LARGER SIZE OF THE HUMMERS CLICK ON

THIS SITE ( PAGES 3-4 )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27786671@N00/?saved=1

** SAME BIRD BUT COLOR ON THROAT WILL CHANGE

ON RUFUS HUMMING BIRDS- ( MANY PEOPLE OUT

WEST THINK THIER A 8 RUBY THROAT ) BUTH THE RUBY

IS A EASTERN BIRD

Wow! such beautiful colors for such a small bird!
great shots!

Two New Birds today!!

Brown Creeper (Certhia americana)

Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus)

Going back to this area tomorrow with better light so hopefully better shots and more birds!

** my favourite * small * bird is the ** brown

creeper- i have had a couple in yard but hard to photo they start at

bottom of a tree work thier way towards the top then fly down to the

base of another tree and do it all over again very nice photo * yahoo

favourite large bird is the * OSPREY ^

** dull day yesterday but had 5-6 ** BAND-TAILED

PIGEON ( COLUMBA FASCIATA)

i watched these greater yellow legs for an hour as they rested

chased little unknown critters - and one caught a small fish

Some really great photos here. Bella I love your heron pics.
And Limpopo that Yellow-headed blackbird is pretty.

Barry...My brothers and his friends took me snipe hunting and left me alone in the dark woods when I was about 15. It was not fun !

I just have to share today's Wildcast video with you
http://www.wildcast.net/2007/04/07/saddle-billed-storks-hunt-sedately-video/
it's about the saddle-bill stork
ENjoy!

That was great Ceri!..Thanks for sharing it!

SHARP SHINNED OR COOPER REALLY HARD TO TELL AS THEY ARE BOTH

SIMLAR -

SHARP-SHINNED HAWK ( ACCIPTER STRIATUS)

COOPERS HAWK ( ACCIPTER COOPERII )

RED-TAILED HAWK ( BUTEO JAMAICENSIS)
PAIR OF - REDTAILED HAWKS - SOARING OVER THE PROPERTY

Went to the Arboretum in Flagstaff yesterday. Didn't find any new birds but did get some good pictures at their birds of prey show.

Augur Buzzard (Buteo augur)


from Africa

Harris's Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus)

Also:

Eurasian Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo)

Crested Caracara (Polyborus plancus)

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)

Beautiful pics Bella! That crested caracara looks a little ill-tempered. Wouldn't want to meet one.lol

Robin - (Erithacus rubecula)

Coal Tit (Periparus ater, but used to be Parus ater).

very nervous little bird - wouldn't stay still!

FANTASTIC PHOTOS EVERYONE!

Where these taken in britain!

cute little birds Ingwe!! very nice

Great photos - what a variety!!

Here is a first for me, and another sparrow - Lark Sparrow

(Chondestes grammacus)

I LOVE THE CRESTED CARACARA - DIET: The Crested Caracara usually feeds on carrion, but they will take advantage of any food opportunity by eating small mammals, amphibians, reptiles, turtles, fish, crab, eggs, insects, worms, and nestling birds. Caracaras hunt live food on the ground or take food from other birds.

GREAT BUNCH OF PHOTOS MAKES MY DAY TO SEE PEOPLE

POSTING BIRDS VERY NICE

Limpopo, what a great sighting and beautiful pic too
Super pics everybody, lol Ingwe what a nice shot of the robin with it's beak open like that.
Bella I just love the oehoe (dutch name of the Bubo bubo)

Lovely pics everyone - I don't always post, but I look every day :oops:

Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

Thanks Christy for sharing your great pictures. Makes me want to get out more with my camera (maybe when the weather gets a little better )

White Wagtail (Motacilla alba), seen in Lower Saxony, Germany last week.

I was quite a distance from these birds, but, happy to see them for the first time today at the Turtle Pond in Central Park, NYC.

First, the Great Egret (Casmerodius albus) returns to his fishing hold. He stalks, strikes, then digests

And this one was really difficult to capture on image as he was flying around like crazy getting bugs over the water. I think this is an Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) but the bird was so far away I can't see if there is an eye ring or not and can't really make out the wings to see if there are white bars. If there are wing bars but no eye ring, then this is Eastern Pewee (Contopus virens)

Well worth the wait, beautiful action... (I would have missed it... camera not ready.. oops, there he goes)

Oh Limpopo, will you please add that beautiful Lark Sparrow to our Sparrow thread? Or, is he not truly a Sparrow ornothologically speaking?

NICE TO SEE YOU POSTING SOME PICS SMALLDOG

REAL NICE MUST BE HARD WITH A HANDFULL OF DOGS TO

TAKE PHOTO,S GREAT JOB DO SOME MORE