I looked and can't find a May thread so I am starting one.

I tried again to get bird pictures and here is what I have.

Song Sparrow


House Sparrows


Morning Dove

Rita: Thanks for the new thread! Love that little Song Sparrow and the House Sparrows too ... and of course the pretty Doves. We have lots of Doves here and many folks don't care for them because there are so many but I never get tired of watching and listening to them. Their coos and calls are just so enchanting.

I like the Morning Doves. Silly birds. And I love my Song Sparrows. They seem to be here most of the time. Don't care for the House Sparrows but they come for the bird seed too.

Rita, good job on those photos, see I told you with a little practice you could do it.

Ha-ha. You should have seen the other 20 something deleated pictures of the morning dove that I totally messed up.

Well, that sounds like me! I can take 100 or more pictures and save only 2 or 3 from the bunch ... sometimes they all get deleted and I try again. I get really frustrated though if I see a bird that I've never seen before or something new to me and take hundreds of pic's only to have every single one be out of focus and so blurry you can't even tell what the subject is.

That's the way to do it Rita, I take dozens of shots and may end up with only one decent in the bunch.

The darn things just will not stay still. Not like my flowers which always pose for me!

Me too Rita. Those bird bath photos I took? Lots, & lots, & lots of deletions.
How do you think professional photographers get their shots? They take hundreds of pictures & may not get one that's worthy of publishing. Truth to tell, they probably take thousands of photos to get that magic ONE.

You're doing great Rita! I could really see much detail on the sparrows & the one good one of the dove is GOOD! So keep 'em coming.

It is fun to try and get those birds captured on film.

It is!

Great pics Rita!

I took these pics of a Chukar that was here in our yard all day and evening on May 4. First time DH and I have ever seen one. We were hoping it would show up again, but not so far.

Sweet bird!

Sadly, it is a bird hunted by others.

I was in the city today, and happened to have my camera in the car. I didn't have time to get more than these few bird shots.
Suburban bird:

Pigeon:

Great-tailed Grackle, I think.

Lin, the only times I've really had oranges out before were when the orioles came in the fall of 2009. I didn't see any woodpeckers using the ones near the house, but doesn't mean there weren't any. At the wildlife area outside the fence, squirrels were stealing the orange halfs during the day, so that didn't turn out well.

Im so glad I was looking for a bird forum....We are having a great birding year already...We have 2 nesting pair of Baltimore Orioles,they just arrived a week ago,Hummers are back,Blue birds cking out the house,Jenny wrens nesting in bird houses....And yesterday We Have 3 Red Headed wood peckers...Im hoping 1 is a female,they have been at the feeders and doing a mating dance and the chases are wonderful...Yes they are Red headed....We are soo lucky to have suh a fine variity of Beautiful birds in our woods and yard

Nice photos everyone!

Tamara, that's great that you are enjoying lots of bird activity, nice photo of the Red-headed woodpecker.

Marilyn: Wow, love that pretty Chukar! I've never heard of that bird so I went to the Cornell University site to read more about it. How lucky of you to get to see that beauty! http://www.allaboutbirds.org/g...

Linda: Cool city shots! The first photo of "Surburban Bird" looks to be a Northern Mockingbird! Great position shot of the Grackle!

Tamara: Great shot of that Red-headed Woodpecker ... such a pretty bird. We don't have that one here and I wish we did.

The Chukar is really pretty and I think the bird forum is quite popular especially these monthly picture threads.

Welcome, huggergirl!
Nice woodpecker shot! I wish I had more species of woodpeckers also, as I really love them! I do see other kinds coming through seasonally. Right now, one woodpecker around...well, her and whatever babies are in her nest! Great pics of the Chukar, Marilyn! Thanks for the mockingbird ID, Lin...I still don't know too many birds by sight.

mcash70 said:Nice photos everyone!

Tamara, that's great that you are enjoying lots of bird activity, nice photo of the Red-headed woodpecker.