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Oh good. A new month and the birds are here all morning eating on the birdseeds. Lots of the usual sparrows and Juncos and Morning Doves.

Get some photos Rita.

I am so terrible at getting pictures of the birds.

Here's some winter birds!

Steller's Jays waiting for their peanuts. A sweet little Mountain Chickadee preening. Bohemian Waxwings,

eating the fruit off an ornamental crab tree................... Downy Woodpecker getting his fill of suet.

Great pictures Margaret! I could never get such great pictures!

Thank you Rita!

Sure you can, all you have to do is keep aiming and shooting, edit and pick the best!

They are all great but the little Chickadee pictures is extra great!

I get nice pics of my flowers but I really am horrible at nature shots. If it moves, I can barely photograph it.

That is a problem alright, that's why you have to take a lot of pics.

with Margaret. You have to take a lot of photos & will ditch 20 or 30 or in my case 50 or 100 for every one you keep.

Fabulous shots Margaret!

Thank you Ann!

and then he dives!





I can't figure out what sparrows these are

Ann, great pictures of the Cardinal!

Those sparrows might be white crown or white throats? I bet Margaret will know.

Nearly got a decent shot of the Buff-breasted Rails. The parents are feeding in the garden and are not too scared but gradually move off into the grass. They have young walking around with them. I have seen two black balls of fluff but they can really run. I thought had them on a sports stop sequence shot my camera will do. But I must not have pressed the button.


I just noticed you can see the bubs following at the bottom of the shot!!! Black fluff ball. Whooopppeee.

Ann, I am pretty sure it is a juvenile White-crowned Sparrow, so Rita got it right.

Cool Glen! I saw the bubs.

Thanks Margaret & Rita. I keep trying to get clear photos of those sparrows. They don't mind if I'm there & I can get pretty close but Lord! don't dare point that camera at them! They have the prettiest markings on their back.

Ann, I love the White-crowned sparrows, they have the sweetest song in the spring, check it out, and yes once they get used to you, you can get pretty close to them, I have been within a few feet of them, I have a couple of photos somewhere, can't find them right now, I need to organize my photos better!

Glen, you have the most interesting birds.

Lots of morning doves here today. Not that I can get any pics because they are hanging out in the backyard where I can't get any shots.

We have tons & tons of the white crowned sparrow juveniles but I have yet to see an adult????? That's why I was having so much trouble ID'ing them I guess ~~ I was assuming they *were* the adult version of whatever they were. I will check out their songs Margaret. I'm still trying to learn the songs of the birds here that I am not used to. Cardinals I know, Jays I know, finches I know, Catbirds I know, hawks I know including all the different sounds each makes. It's been hard though to learn the new ones. They all get jumbled up in my brain. I think maybe I need to listen to one per day & then when I get that one down, move to the next species.

Ann, that's a good idea to listen to a song each day, I should do that too.

Found the photo, I was weeding in the 'Birds' garden in the corner, there were a dozen or more of the White-crowned sparrows at the various feeders and on the ground, this one flew into the tree right beside me and I managed to get a few good shots before it flew to the ground to join the others.