Birds Birds Non-BIF Thread - Post Your Shots Here

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Nice surprise today. I went to collect the mail and saw three yellow-tailed black cockatoo sitting in a tree in my street. I raced home, picked up the camera, drove the car back and got 400 or so shots off before they flew away.

The male….
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Yellow-Tailed Black cockatoos hanging around this afternoon.


Females:

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The winter in the California Sierras finally starts to easy up. My bird feeder appeared under the melting snow and I placed the first suet in it and they came.
A male Northern Flicker brings some color in the dominating white surrounding.

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Lucy in the sky with diamonds - this time posted in the correct thread.
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Ive been waiting for birds to get right side up, but this is a revelation!
 
A few from a walk yesterday
Black-Crowned Night-Heron
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Great Blue Heron with lunch

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Wood Duck

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Then of course the ever-present Mallard

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I enjoyed watching a pair of Eastern Phoebes catching dragonflies and other insects this afternoon.


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Lovely shots Rick.
 
Blue Tit with attitude from a wander at Strumpshaw this week.
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Blue Jay harassing a Red tail Hawk.
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A female Hooded Merganser. This lady was swimming towards me with her eyes closed which is probably the reason she got so close.
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Ducks are hilarious. Wheee!
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The Sierra mountain range in California got a lot of snow this winter. Numbers in feet and meters are impressive but this two pictures give you an idea, too.
The first pictures shows a Canada Goose chick in April 2021. The second one is at the same spot in April 2023 but the mother/father is standing on 1.5 meters (5 feet) of snow.

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American Goldfinch
The most colourful thing I've seen in weeks. It fairly glowed on this dismal, dreary, morning in the rain.
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evacguy said:
ST, what's going on with his beak?
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Hi, Ed,
Thanks for asking.
It's like a milk mustache, just debris from the buds it's munching on. I wouldn't normally post this picture, but it sort of shows what's going on.
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Black-Crowned Night-Heron seems to enjoy the Bali resort lifestyle.
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