Birds I saw on vacation

[towtruk7]

Let's try this again. I am using a different image host.

I am new to taking photos and am definately not a bird expert. I will figure out what exact species these birds are and post them later. For now I will call them by their not-so-scientific names such as - white bird, black bird, etc.

The first one I am sure you all have seen. It is the well known flying rat.

Here is a good hawk shot. I need to work on shutter speeds and things like that because the face is a little dark.

Here is a cool reflection shot. Once again, I need to practice more, the bird is a little too blurry.

Here is a black bird sitting on a board. (how's that for poetry)

And finally - the bravest bird I have ever seen. What you can't see in the photo is that a matter of feet away is an alligator in the cabbage. Still a neat photo anyway.

Thanks for looking. I put some other photos in the photo sharing group if you are interested.

[Steve Foss]

Hi towtruk. Can't see any images. All I get are little boxes with question marks in them.

[Deitz Dittrich]

They are working for me.. nice picts!

[Steve Foss]

And now they are working for me as well.

[M.T. Bucket]

Well, I'm pretty much done with FM...haven't logged on in months, probably won't again as I took issue with the moderating there. However, I lurked here and caught these unidentified bird photos...something I'm always a sucker for.

Your "flying rat" is actually a Bonaparte's Gull, which is actually a great sighting in my book and hardly your average Mickey D's fry-sucking Ring-bill.

Your hawk appears to be a Red-shouldered Hawk, but I have little experience with the species.

I haven't gotten to the other photos just yet, but I'm beginning to think your vacation was in California. Wait, nope. The next photo tells me Florida...I think it might be a Reddish Egret...pretty tough to id from that particular view.

After that, the other 2 photos both appear to be Little Blue Herons.

Those are my guesses. Bye.

[Steve Foss]

I think M.T.'s right on with his IDs.

M.T., I wondered where you'd gone. We'll miss your bird expertise here. If there's something you'd like to talk about, feel free to e-mail me at the address in my sig.