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Birds Everywhere!!!!

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chaffmj Grand Master

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4 hours ago, Mike89 said:

just watched a loon eat it's super...  fun to watch them swallow the fish!!    also seeing several very young eagles to..  interesting seeing how they change color as they get older!!

 

This isn't the best pictures but her are a couple of pics of a female hooded merganser eating with some common goldeneye nearby.

 

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Here are some pics I took last week of some of the birds on our deck feeders.   Male purple finch.   Red breasted nuthatch with the purple finch.   Male goldfinch.

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Birds have been coming back to the feeders in the last week in abundance. And apparently an owl fed overnight on a little opossum and left me a present on the deck.    

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🤭 birds are having a tough spring!!!

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You’re getting some great pics of birds - some I don’t see.  That’s probably the first time I’ve seen a pic of snow bunting except maybe when I was a kid and looking through one of my dad’s bird books.

 

Looks like that hen hooded is munching a crayfish.  That’s what I see them eat when they’re coming through my place.

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12 hours ago, Wanderer said:

You’re getting some great pics of birds - some I don’t see.  That’s probably the first time I’ve seen a pic of snow bunting except maybe when I was a kid and looking through one of my dad’s bird books.

 

Looks like that hen hooded is munching a crayfish.  That’s what I see them eat when they’re coming through my place.

 

I thought the same thing about what the duck was eating.

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was just watching 4 pelicans out front and seen something new to me!!  the wind is low today so they are a ways and they lay their head on their back and snooze a way..  they drift close to shore they paddle out and do it again...  

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12 hours ago, delcecchi said:

Are you sure?   Looks like a hairy to me. 

 

The hairys I have seen around here have a large white spot on their back and don't have the red on the throat.

Like this picture below of a hairy.

 

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The hairys I have seen around here have a large white spot on their back and don't have the red on the throat.

Like this picture below of a hairy.

 

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Could be.   Looking at pictures on the net,  hard to tell.    I hope the yellowbellies stay away from here, they are hard on the scotch pines.   

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1 hour ago, delcecchi said:

Could be.   Looking at pictures on the net,  hard to tell.    I hope the yellowbellies stay away from here, they are hard on the scotch pines.   

 

 I agree with you that it is hard to tell from pictures and when I saw it at first I thought it was a hairy. until I saw it from the front and then it was very clear to me that it was a yellow-belly. 

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 I agree with you that it is hard to tell from pictures and when I saw it at first I thought it was a hairy. until I saw it from the front and then it was very clear to me that it was a yellow-belly. 

I defer to your sight.   I hadn't realized they looked so much alike before.   I still hope they stay away from my scotch pines and white pines.   

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Had a bunch of cedar waxwings, my 1st red breasted grosbeak, and a couple goldfinches in the last few days. No numbers of anything yet though. Also had a couple visits from this young lady. Smallest cubs I have ever seen outside a den. 

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