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Marlin1894
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Posted: May 14, 2012 12:00pm
Any birders in the house? I'm not real birder but I spend a lot of time outdoors so I see all sorts of them, and I'm pretty good at identifying them. I don't have any special camera or anything so I don't get a lot of great pics. Thought I'd share a few anyway and hope other will share some that they have taken. I have more but I'd like to see others, if anyone has any to share.
Here is a strutting Wild Turkey gobbler. Got this on Easter Sunday this year.
Here is a wild turkey hen, I just got this pic yesterday.
Here is a young Mallard drake with a purple head. Kind of odd, wish I had a better pic.
Here is a real mixed bag. Canada Goose with goslings, Graylag Goose, and Mallard drake.
Graylag.
Here is a male Barn Swallow with a treat for it's baby.
Here is a pair of Blue wing Teal. Bad picture but interesting to me because when we see these during hunting season they are still in what's called eclipse plumage. Which is very plain. Some duck hunters don't even recognize Blue Wings in their regular plumage. Bad pic, but even without downloading and enlarging you can see the characteristic white cresent on the face of the drake.
Speaking of duck hunting.
Wish I had a better camera. Just this weekend I saw a beautiful Scarlet Tanager as well as a Cormorant. Also, Mergansers and Common Goldeneye ducks that sit way out on the lake and can only bee seen with field glasses.
A few bonus pics of non-birds.
This is a Red Admiral butterfly.
Here is a cool butterfly called a Mourning Cloak.
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Marlin1894
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Posted: May 14, 2012 12:38pm
Closer (blurrier) look at the BWT
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critter
Inner circle
Spokane, WA
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Posted: May 14, 2012 12:42pm
We see a lot of wild turkeys but never when I have a camera handy.
Ducks are so common around here that I never even thought to take a picture.
Maybe I'll get around to it.
Most birds creep me out a little though. Like dentists, birds have no souls.
I throw stuff.
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Marlin1894
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Posted: May 14, 2012 12:49pm
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On 2012-05-14 12:42, critter wrote:
We see a lot of wild turkeys but never when I have a camera handy.
Ducks are so common around here that I never even thought to take a picture.
Maybe I'll get around to it.
Most birds creep me out a little though. Like dentists, birds have no souls.
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lol! I have some pics of my girlfriend with a fake crow in her hair running around like a scene from "The Birds". The can be creepy. Always watching you. Watching, watching.
Turkey are becoming as common as pigeons around here. In fact I think I see more turkey. I can go to just about any body of water from a puddle to Lake Michigan and see Mallards all day. Teal, Widgeon, Wood Ducks etc are not at all rare, but you just don't see them very often. And when you do see them they usually see you, and they don't hang around very long. I see tons of cool songbirds, woodpeckers, hawks, etc. But without a camera with a good lens at the ready, I never can get any good pics. I just have a regular digital camera and I'm not much of a photographer anyway.
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RJE2
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Posted: May 14, 2012 1:29pm
Nice pictures Marlin.
I'm not much of a camera guy, but our house is surrounded by a small decidous forest in southern Ontario and we get a lot of birds at our feeders.
This is the time of year that we get the Scarlet Tanagers and Indigo Buntings returning. Both are small with real bright colours.
All year long, I get to listen to the Pileated Woodpecker which is also a treat. It reminds me of watching jungle movies as a kid.
Wild turkeys walk through our property on a fairly regular basis. There is a Red Tailed Hawk nest about 75 meters from the house. The Junkos are moving out and the Goldfinches are now moving in.
The Redbreasted Grosbeaks have been back for a few weeks now and it won't be long before the Orioles and Ruby Throated Hummingbirds return.
We have to stop putting seed in the lower feeders this time of year because the juvenile black bears like to visit them. I started beekeeping this year and hopefully the bears won't be a problem. The liquid feeders are on a modified clothesline with baffles to keep the racoons from them.
All in all, it's been a pretty nice spring and lots of wildlife about.
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hestonsmagic
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Posted: May 14, 2012 1:38pm
This was an exciting find today on the Magic Café.. I am an avid birder in Oregon and would not of expected a birder link on the Café... Every year we go on a Marathon birding trip and register approx 150 species in 3 days... This trip is due in just a couple of weeks.. will update you all on my return... Thanks for the birding spot for magicians.....
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Marlin1894
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Posted: May 14, 2012 1:47pm
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On 2012-05-14 13:29, RJE2 wrote:
Nice pictures Marlin.
I'm not much of a camera guy, but our house is surrounded by a small decidous forest in southern Ontario and we get a lot of birds at our feeders.
This is the time of year that we get the Scarlet Tanagers and Indigo Buntings returning. Both are small with real bright colours.
All year long, I get to listen to the Pileated Woodpecker which is also a treat. It reminds me of watching jungle movies as a kid.
Wild turkeys walk through our property on a fairly regular basis. There is a Red Tailed Hawk nest about 75 meters from the house. The Junkos are moving out and the Goldfinches are now moving in.
The Redbreasted Grosbeaks have been back for a few weeks now and it won't be long before the Orioles and Ruby Throated Hummingbirds return.
We have to stop putting seed in the lower feeders this time of year because the juvenile black bears like to visit them. I started beekeeping this year and hopefully the bears won't be a problem. The liquid feeders are on a modified clothesline with baffles to keep the racoons from them.
All in all, it's been a pretty nice spring and lots of wildlife about.
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That's sounds awesome. I used to live in the northern part of the state (Wisconsin), near the southern shore of the big lake, your yard sounds pretty much how our yard was wildlife wise. I still get a lot of the same birds at me feeders in the southern part of the state. But it was much better up north.
Just last week I saw my first Scarlet Tanager, Indigo Bunting, Baltimore Oriole, and hummingbird of the season. So they should be up your way shortly! Put out some orange halves or grape jelly for the orioles. But keep it out of the bears reach. lol!
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Marlin1894
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Posted: May 14, 2012 1:50pm
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On 2012-05-14 13:38, hestonsmagic wrote:
This was an exciting find today on the Magic Café.. I am an avid birder in Oregon and would not of expected a birder link on the Café... Every year we go on a Marathon birding trip and register approx 150 species in 3 days... This trip is due in just a couple of weeks.. will update you all on my return... Thanks for the birding spot for magicians.....
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No problem. Yes, please tell us about the trip and post some pics if you can. I'm going to try and get some more pics soon. It's hard to get good ones though.
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Marlin1894
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Posted: May 14, 2012 2:09pm
I didn't take this photo. It was taken this winter by someone else at the Schlitz Audubon center here in town. I love this pic. It appears to show the spot where and owl of some sort grabbed some prey.
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critter
Inner circle
Spokane, WA
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Posted: May 14, 2012 2:51pm
I really like squirrels though. I can watch me some squirrels.
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
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Marlin1894
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Posted: May 14, 2012 3:31pm
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On 2012-05-14 14:51, critter wrote:
I really like squirrels though. I can watch me some squirrels.
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Just for you then, I will post another non-bird pic. Here is a pic of a one eared squirrel that hangs around my house. I named it Sinclair after a buddy of mine who had most of his right ear bitten off breaking up a bar fight.
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critter
Inner circle
Spokane, WA
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Posted: May 14, 2012 3:35pm
Awesome. He's a burly looking feller.
I throw stuff.
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Marlin1894
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Posted: May 14, 2012 3:36pm
He's a scrapper. That pic was taken 2 years ago. He's still alive.
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critter
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Spokane, WA
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Posted: May 14, 2012 3:39pm
It was the snow-turkey pic got me thinking about squirrels. I have fond memories of studying squirrel tracks in the snow.
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
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MagicSanta
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Northern Nevada
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Posted: May 14, 2012 3:39pm
We don't have squirrels, now I am sad.
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critter
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Spokane, WA
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Posted: May 14, 2012 3:44pm
Ain't you got prarie dogs and road runners?
I throw stuff.
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MagicSanta
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Posted: May 14, 2012 5:15pm
Nope. We have chipmonks, quail, coyote, and wild horses.
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RJE2
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Posted: May 14, 2012 5:23pm
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On 2012-05-14 13:47, Marlin1894 wrote:
Just last week I saw my first Scarlet Tanager, Indigo Bunting, Baltimore Oriole, and hummingbird of the season. So they should be up your way shortly! Put out some orange halves or grape jelly for the orioles. But keep it out of the bears reach. lol!
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Excellent! Send them up. We'll be waiting.
Even if we don't see the Orioles when they first arrive, we know they're here because the car and pick up truck windows get all dirty. The males sit on the vehicle doors and fight with their own reflections in the side mirrors.
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Marlin1894
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Posted: May 14, 2012 5:23pm
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On 2012-05-14 17:15, MagicSanta wrote:
Nope. We have chipmonks, quail, coyote, and wild horses.
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If you scare up a quail and it starts to run away or looks like it's going to take flight, you can sometimes get it to freeze in place with a hawk whistle.
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critter
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Posted: May 14, 2012 6:15pm
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On 2012-05-14 17:15, MagicSanta wrote:
Nope. We have chipmonks, quail, coyote, and wild horses.
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Chipmunks is cool.
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
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-Theodore Roosevelt
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balducci
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Canada
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Posted: May 14, 2012 6:38pm
I was in Sydney, Australia, earlier this year. They have some nice birds over there.
Some of them are CRAZY big.
"We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Marlin1894
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Posted: May 14, 2012 6:44pm
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On 2012-05-14 18:38, balducci wrote:
I was in Sydney, Australia, earlier this year. They have some nice birds over there.
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Cool pics!
[quote]Some of them are CRAZY big.[/quote}
Ha! What is that?
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critter
Inner circle
Spokane, WA
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Posted: May 14, 2012 6:50pm
The crows around the Grand Canyon are way bigger than most of the ones we have around here.
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
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balducci
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Posted: May 14, 2012 6:52pm
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On 2012-05-14 18:44, Marlin1894 wrote:
Ha! What is that?
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The over-sized bird's nest is a part of this sculpture walk in Sydney:
http://www.walshbaysydney.com.au/sculpturewalk.html
http://sydney-eye.blogspot.ca/2010/01/skywatch-friday-black-totem-ii.html
"We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Woland
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Posted: May 14, 2012 8:27pm
Love the kookaburras.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ZbykXlg6Q
More here:
http://www.junglewalk.com/sound/kookaburra-sounds.htm
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Mary Mowder
Inner circle
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Posted: May 14, 2012 8:57pm
I don't have a photo but I've just seen my first pair of Blue Birds in a tree behind my house.
I've lived within 30 miles of here most of my life and these are the first Blue Birds I've ever seen. I was surprised to find a pair of them.
They like to hunt bugs while I mow the lawn just like a Black Phoebe that lives here.
I live in Elk Grove CA just south of Sacramento CA.
-Mary Mowder
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MagicSanta
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Northern Nevada
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Posted: May 14, 2012 9:00pm
Crows can get big. As a wee little fellow in Richland Wash. there was a Minah (?) Bird that would sit in his cage in the driveway. We would stare at that sucker as it talked and were convined a witch turned someone into that bird.
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Bob1Dog
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Posted: May 15, 2012 12:13am
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On 2012-05-14 14:51, critter wrote:
I really like squirrels though. I can watch me some squirrels.
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Would you consider yourself squirrely?
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about? 
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums.
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kambiz
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Posted: May 15, 2012 12:40am
I love these birds. In fact I feel blessed to live in a country where such richness of bird wildlife exists. I'll try and post some pics of some of them from Western Australia if I can in a minute.
Couple of months back, while playing dawn golf with a few buddies, we saw a kookaburra swoop down and grab a snake from the nearby bush, knock it out and fly back up onto a branch where he indulged himself and even burped afterwards....it was hilarious and astonishing at the same time!
Obviously this is quite common, as I see on youtube (thanks Woland for reminding me to look this up  )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99h--dQqQtw&feature=related
Kam
If I speak forth, many a mind will shatter,
And if I write, many a pen will break.
.....and when I consider my own self, lo, I find it coarser than clay!
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MagicSanta
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Posted: May 15, 2012 12:59am
I saw a very pretty blue bird the other day, not sure the type it was.
Elk Grove! I did a Gospel puppet show there and went to a Christian concert? Then I went to the dark side.
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