Sorry for taking so long. I meant to make this so long ago. I have pictures from almost a month ago.
I can hardly believe how late it is into migration already. In a few days the trees turned green, more warblers will be around, sparrows, waterfowl, shorebirds. So much! I can't believe it! I have finally caught up on organizing my bird photos so I should be able to get a few more posts out quickly.
I have been biking quite a lot the past month, so, with out further ado, my bird photos since near the beginning of April!
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Common Grackle |
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American Robin |
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Mallards and Killdeer |
Yellowrumps have been around awhile, as well as kinglets. Today we saw our first Palm Warbler
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Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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Cat at a friends house |
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Fox Sparrow |
One highlight was a Oregon Junco! They are rare here, but still can be seen. That was a treat!
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Dark-eyed Junco "Oregon" |
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Cooper's Hawk |
And our dog apparently likes the water in the bird bath.
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Winzy our dog drinking from the bird bath. |
My brother and sister's violin teacher has a cute little dog that I couldn't leave out.
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Puppy dog |
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Downy Woodpecker |
I also enjoy just photographing things other than birds. Like this moss clump on the forest floor.
After some rainy days we had like fifty robins on our lawn.
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American Robins |
Yellowrumps come to our suet sometimes, this is a bright male and a junco.
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Yellow-rumped Warbler and Dark-eyed Junco |
There is a nice tree out the back of our road that is quite nice especially at sunset. It is a single tree beside the highway. William named it the Soller-Tree (the name of a hedgehog from the series Redwall) because it is a solitary tree.
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The "Soller-Tree" |
We often bike to the Red River floodway, where Hooded Mergansers are quite common.
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Hooded Mergansers |
Nice photos! That is a very cute puppy. The Yellow-rumped Warblers have such pretty coloring!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Do you not see the Yellowrumps in their summer colors then?
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