Bird identity

[CASTnBLAST]

What is this can't find it in my book? Thanks!

[Steve Foss]

Sorry CnB, I get an "oops" message from photobucket saying the link is no longer there. That usually happens when something in the string is typed in incorrectly.

Try again, and if you still can't make it work, e-mail me a jpeg and I'll get it up.

[CASTnBLAST]

I'll try again

[Steve Foss]

Nope.

[buzzsaw]

I believe that to be a Harris' Sparrow.

[Steve Foss]

Now Buzz, are you joshing, or can you really see an image there? Fess up!

[M.T. Bucket]

I concur with Buzz. I am VERY envious. I hope I get a Harris's sparrow this year!

[The_Duckslayer]

I hope that Steve eventually gets to see it!

Try again, and if you still can't make it work, e-mail me a jpeg and I'll get it up.

Careful there Steve... Hey come on, ya all were thinking it anyway! Have a good one././Jimbo

[Tom Wilson]

I can see it too--am I correct in thinking that only Nikon people can see it?

Tom W

[buzzsaw]

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I can see it too--am I correct in thinking that only Nikon people can see it?

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Ha ha ha very solid!! Good stuff Tom!

[Steve Foss]

Here we go again. Just remember, YOU STARTED IT!

But I don't blame you Nikon pukes for making fun. When you've made a misguided decision on a product that has coasted with an excuse-me attitude into the digital age based on the tremendous reputation of its outdated film cameras, what can you do but take potshots at the company that saw the potential of digital before any other company and took fast and great strides to develop it, and now owns 70 percent of the international digital camera market?

Boy, I'm so tempted to lock this thread right now and get the last word, but that would be like taking candy from Nikkor babies (insert evil leer here.)

You all realize, of course, that we Canon and Nikon fans have been trading gentle barbs for months, that this is in good fun and all is I know Nikon gear can produce tremendous images.

[CASTnBLAST]

Steve you've got mail. I give up trying,it's tough to figure out how to post a picture when I can see both of them when I open up the thread...dunno what's up with that.

Don't think this is a rare bird or anything we just have a mess of them hangin around the feeder and was curious.They are also a very cautious bird.

[Steve Foss]

Well, CnB, thanks for shooting me the image. It is a male Harris's sparrow in breeding plumage. It seems obvious others can see this image on the thread, while all I get is that dumb photobucket icon.

Harris's sparrows winter in the central/south U.S. from the southern half of S.D. down through Texas. They migrate north in spring and breed in north-central Canada. In April or May, you might find them anywhere in the Midwest as they migrate, and there ahve been numerous sightings to the west and east of their "normal" migration path.

[buzzsaw]

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. It seems obvious others can see this image on the thread, while all I get is that dumb photobucket icon

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I was using my Jedi tricks to fool you into believing what you were seeing from Cast n' Blast was a Harris Sparrow and it worked! Steve is right, we go back and forth on the Nikon v Canon stuff, I just feel bad for the Fuji and Pentax guys... they have nice camera's too.... maybe even nicer than those mass produced Canon's. DOH!

[Steve Foss]

Jedi tricks? Either you saw the image or you came up with a tremendous ID out of thin air. If the latter, the Force is with you. But Buzz, won't you come over from the Dark Side and use the Force the way it was meant to be?

[Tom Wilson]

I wasn't kidding I really can see it in both posts. Harris sparrow sitting atop a weathered bird feeder.

Tom W

[Steve Foss]

Oh well, I'll just leave it to the tech heads to figure out why I get a Photobucket "oops" and others can see it. First time that's happened to me.

Hmmm, now that's interesting. I've been using Safari for my Internet browser, and that's where I get the "oops" icon. I just pulled up Explorer and the images show up.

[buzzsaw]

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But Buzz, won't you come over from the Dark Side and use the Force the way it was meant to be?

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Darth, stop with the Canon innuendo's! I will not be swayed, not now, not tomorrow, maybe the day after however. It sounds like Safari went on a safari eh, glad you can see the Harris' Sparrow now.

[CASTnBLAST]

Thanks guys,it wasn't in my "Birds Of Minnesota Field Guide".Glad you had fun with my post and now I know several different ways to post pictures here LOL!

[jonny_redhorse]

I saw Cast's image of the harris's sparrow right away also!.....no problem....in regards to Buzz's statement....... ....all the camera companies have contributed to the photographic world through the years........yes....even ......Fuji (I don't mind being an underdog ....builds character! jonny

[Deitz Dittrich]

Just so its not all photo guys.. i am a photo one-who-thinks-I-am-silly, and I see a bird on a bird feeder as well.. No clue what it is.. well I do now at least.