Not exactly a hotbed of aerial activity yet I snapped a couple of geese in change of habit and a robin.

Those Geese are very cool and wow, what a beautiful photo of the Robin!

I got a new camera yesterday and have been playing around with it all afternoon today ... will post photo's in awhile; I need to go figure out what to cook for dinner tonight!

Oh my goodness! I have never seen geese like that. I take it you mean they are molting. The white one almost looks like the dog breed Komondor (sp?) who have those cords of hair that makes them look like a mop.

LOL Ann, that was my first thought too ... the Komondor, the dog that looks like it has dreadlocks: http://www.google.com/search?q...

plantladylin said:LOL Ann, that was my first thought too ... the Komondor, the dog that looks like it has dreadlocks: http://www.google.com/search?q...

Can you imagine how long it takes that mop to dry? OY! And the smell.

I was playing with my new camera this afternoon and got a few pic's I thought I'd share.

A Snowy Egret was perched in a tree, preening his feathers and then surveying his surroundings:


A Blue Heron was in the backyard today:

Love them both!

A few of our regular backyard birds today.

A Mourning Dove and a Blue Jay:


Male and female Red-winged Blackbirds:


Mockingbirds:


And ... a Grackle:

A Blue Jay heading to the feeder and a Mockingbird perched on the rooftop:

Such cool birds, Lin! The female Golden-fronted Woodpecker had been all over the place around here the last few days.



And some kind of bird kept flying around high up today, could hear its calls, but don't know the predators that well...sure kept the regulars nervous!

A golden fronted woodpecker. That's a new one to me. Thanks Linda!

Hope your feeling a little better now.

flaflwrgrl said:Hope your feeling a little better now.

Hope you are feeling much better! Seeing that beautiful Woodpecker must be a wonderful experience! We don't have them down here and I'd never heard of that one until I saw a photo you posted awhile back ... it's such a pretty WP!

Here are two pictures I took this evening. I love when I can get shots of birds in the shrubs or trees and I'm loving my new camera with it's more powerful zoom so I don't scare the birds away when trying to take their picture. This Mockingbird was perched in the weeping bottlebrush tree and the dove was in a dead cypress tree:

Nice photos Lin. One of these days I'm going to get a better camera with a more powerful zoom.

I think the Brown Thrasher's took a lesson from the Blue Birds. Today they were in the birdbath as a couple with 1 watching while the other bathed.

I just love the Brown Thrashers.

Newyorkrita said:Oh Ann, such a bird paradise there in your garden. Great shots! I am envious of the bluebirds and Brown Thrasher. I sure wish I had those here in my garden.

flaflwrgrl said:Oh! Very cool about that Thrasher Mary!

plantladylin said:I was outside on my back porch early this morning reading the paper and having my coffee as usual and although I haven't filled the feeders in a couple of days there was still a bit of suet and seed in one of the feeders that the Mockingbirds were enjoying. All of a sudden the birds began raising a ruckus of distress type calls and I figured a neighborhood cat was nearby but when I stood up and looked I saw a different visitor ... a snake! I did an on-line search to identify it and found that it's non-venemous Banded Water Snake - but still yipes! a SNAKE! One of the Mockingbirds flew to the ground for a closer look and started spreading and shaking it's feathers and squawking ... I guess it was trying to scare the snake away. The snake stayed for about 30 minutes and then slithered back into the water.

How long and wide is that snake?

Scary looking! Gives me chills!

How close were you when you took those pics?

flaflwrgrl said:Love them both!

Love all the pics y'all post!

flaflwrgrl said:Nice photos Lin. One of these days I'm going to get a better camera with a more powerful zoom.

I think the Brown Thrasher's took a lesson from the Blue Birds. Today they were in the birdbath as a couple with 1 watching while the other bathed.

Wow! Not just one Brown Thrasher, but two at a time!