Oh shoot! I forgot the Chipping Sparrows I got today! An Adult and a Fledgling.

Very Cute Woodpecker Family Claudia , cute chipping sparrow and fledgling too

my hummers seem to be back male and female , no photos yet I'm still playing catch up on yard and garden work at the moment
but I did manage to snag a couple window shots of a few birds around the feeders on the 3rd that have been sitting in the camera until now.

our newest carolina wren


and the house and goldfinch

@beclu727 - Becky, that Hawk is impressive!

I was able to get some great bird photos this past weekend, I was so excited! Since I cropped the photos, you need to click on a bunch of them to see the full picture, unfortunately.

Turns:



[Click to See each of these properly] - Seagulls on a pier



Turn (?) flying....maybe he's hungry for some hamburgers?...or maybe he just made a wrong 'turn' .....awful joke, I know.



Baby seagulls?...(click to see all of them)



Egret?



Baby (well, more like teenager) Canada Geese

Great photos, Kurt and DND - I love being able to see the detail of the markings on the wrens, they're real designer birds. Our wrens are really cute but plainer. And what an exciting array of water birds, DND - some real action shots!

Caught it in my neighbors palm...sorry the photo is blurry...never seen it before.

Nice it is really up in that tree. I'm guessing it is a black bellied whistling duck.

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Great photos everyone! I have been so busy lately that I haven't been stalking the birds with my camera. I am hoping to get the family of nuthatches - they are so cute beeping at each other.

Loving all of the photos!! especially the babies and mommies and daddies! And the water pictures looks so inviting, wish I was there!

That awkward looking bird in the tree could very well be a black bellied whistling duck!

Melanie, how very neat to have your ggf's schoolwork! And wonderful work indeed!

I can't believe there's a bird called a black bellied whistling duck - time to delve into the internet again!

Mika, you must have missed my black bellied whistling duck photos from May. They're still around, I see them in the mornings and I think they have a nest somewhere nearby.

I've read about the wood ducks nesting in trees, but it just looks so strange to see a duck in a tree. I guess that webbing doesn't prevent it, but it seems to go against nature.

I agree, so odd to see them in trees. On top of that black bellied whistling ducks don't quack, they whistle!

To borrow from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, curiouser and curiouser!

Regarding the Canada geese...I think they're getting spoiled with our So. Cal. weather. I pass a mile square park on my way to the grocery store, and there are mobs of them still in the park. Green grass and plenty of hand outs. I haven't seen, or heard a one heading north yet.

seems only fair Mika , after your post the other day I had to look up pied wagtail and jackdaw I mean who names these things

Indeed!

While I was watering my plants this afternoon, I discovered a nest in my citrus tree. Mama bird was not happy at all, making angry bird noises and within 5' of me. I took a poor shot of the nest, there are three eggs. Maybe I will get to take a few baby bird shots if Mama bird lets me.

Anole

Kurt, love the wrens! Our are not around as much right now,

DND, fantastic water bird shots!

John, hope you get to see the babies!

krobra said:Nice it is really up in that tree. I'm guessing it is a black bellied whistling duck.

http://www.audubon.org/field-g...

Thanks, Kurt...I thought it was some kind of a duck by it's bill. He was really high up - my DH says the palm is at least 45 ft. and he was making quite a racket...not quacking but definitely noisy. Certainly didn't know about 'black-bellied-whistling-ducks' but now I can say I've seen one.