Bird Watching!

[rbtree]

Colorful!!

I've added more images from yesterday's shoot:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/sets/72157626533749950/

as a slide show:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/sets/72157626533749950/show

A teaser

 

[Altissimus]

Amazing how Goldfinch seasonal plumage differs

 

[woodworkingboy]

Rog, I particularly like your in flight photos. The clarity of detail but still there is a sense of distance, is real cool.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I wish I could take pics like that.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Seems I have a few of these out back this year. Never seen any before.
I heard one call out and wondered, "WTF is that noise?!".
Pretty though against all the green trees right now.
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[rbtree]

That blackbird video was shot at Ridgefield, just north of portland. I've briefly visited it twice. Need to spend more time there.

 

[Jake Andrews]

Had these 2 beuts in the tree with me on Thursday.

Tawny Frogmouths. Actually believed I couldn't see them and when I was 6 inches away they started to look worried. They flew away but were back in the tree before we left site
J

 

[MasterBlaster]

So cool!!!

 

[Mick!]

Great picture Jake.

 

[Jake Andrews]

Great picture Jake.

Thanks bud, sorry didn't catch your name.
They were great delights in the tree I must say.
J

 

[Mick!]

It's mick, I'll put it on my sig.

 

[Jake Andrews]

Cool, thanks Mick.
J

 

[Bodean]

Tawny Frogmouths look cool as heck.

Hi Jake and Mick. My name's Deva.

Last friday they sent me up a tree to check a potentially failed Great horned owl nest.
There is no nesting material contributed, purely some crotch, here they prefer previously topped euc.
Only found one cold egg. I brought it down for the ologists.

Also found a lesser goldfinch nest with 4 eggs, i was able to pull the hanger and still leave the nest covered.

Birds are pretty rad things to watch, especially if you work outside. It's a perk.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Poor cold egg...

 

[FireFighterZero]

I just looked up Tawny Frogmouth. Cool birds! Hard to believe that they are not an owl. Look just like one. I like 'em!

 

[Cobleskill]

I wish I had a CD of bird calls. I have been hearing a familiar night bird song. Kinda hard to identify. I read Mockingbirds sing at night. It makes a single tweet followed by a twitter.

 

[Dave Shepard]

I wish I had a CD of bird calls. I have been hearing a familiar night bird song. Kinda hard to identify. I read Mockingbirds sing at night. It makes a single tweet followed by a twitter.

I'll have to ask my mother for the link, but she uses a website that I think is put up by Cornell. It's supposed to be very good.

edit: I think this is the link: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/studying/birdsongs/

 

[Dave Shepard]

I make up my own names for birds. There was a brown bird with a red head flicking sawdust next to the mill the other day, so he was a Red Headed Brown Sawdust Flicker.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Haha!

 

[rbtree]

Like this Northern Flicker, Dave?:

The whole flicker set:https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/sets/72157624163213494/
as a slide show:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/sets/72157624163213494/show

 

[woodworkingboy]

That's a great shot!

 

[Dave Shepard]

Flickers on flickr. Ha!

I did a google search, and it looks like some sort of finch. It didn't stay around long. It red on top of it's head.

 

[rbtree]

I need help ID'ing these little fellas... they may be juvenile, not sure.

Mallard ducklings, growing fast.

These were taken last night, in low shadowed light. tough. Echo Lake, near home. I'll be back in sunshine... there's a Northern Flicker hanging out as well.

 

[FireFighterZero]

They have a finch like beak, I could start there.

 

[rbtree]

Just a week earlier, here's a different mallard brood