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Post by crowschmo on Jun 8, 2021 12:31:03 GMT -5
Widdle baby birb. (Hope he's hiding in a good spot).
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Post by crowschmo on Jul 7, 2021 10:23:58 GMT -5
Lifeguard on duty.Nothing but egrets.
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Post by crowschmo on Jul 19, 2021 11:41:56 GMT -5
Those are some industrious pigeons.
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Post by crowschmo on Jul 20, 2021 16:45:33 GMT -5
Saw this at a nearby state park. A bittern maybe?
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Post by crowschmo on Jul 20, 2021 16:47:57 GMT -5
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Post by crowschmo on Aug 2, 2021 17:43:22 GMT -5
Purple martins, I believe. A blurry osprey.
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Post by sol-survivor on Aug 2, 2021 21:26:13 GMT -5
I don't have any pictures, but there was something funny in our backyard in the spring of last year. It was pouring rain, and when I looked out the kitchen window there were four or five mourning doves lined up on the wire leading up to the house. As I watched they in unison raised their left wings for a few seconds and then put them down again. After that they raised their right wings in the same way. They did this for several minutes as my Dad and I and a visitor watched, always moving in unison. They looked like they were all in the shower and were rinsing their pits. It would have been funny to see one dove do it, but to see that many moving as though they had a choreographer was hysterical. I wish I had taken pictures or a video but I would have needed to open the window and it might have scared them away.
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Post by crowschmo on Aug 29, 2021 18:00:07 GMT -5
View AttachmentView AttachmentView AttachmentThese pictures came out so terrible, darn it. I was taking them through a screen. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow. This could just be a starling with a mutation in the coloring, but I swear some grackles are mating with some starlings. There was a grackle in my yard that was the same coloring and shape as the others, same kind of tail, but was much smaller than the other grackles. I think it's too late in the season for it to have been a baby (they would be a different color anyway). And there were two birds (got these pictures) that are mottled black and brown and look like a combination of starlings and grackles. Can anyone tell what they are? Again, the pictures are terrible, I know. (Not talking about the sparrows, obviously). Hope I can get better pictures some other day. I might have figured this out. They might be cow birds. Either juvenile ones or ones with a color mutation. Maybe. ??
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Post by crowschmo on Oct 22, 2021 17:22:07 GMT -5
A black vulture and a "committee" of vultures.
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Post by crowschmo on Nov 3, 2021 11:45:15 GMT -5
Awww.
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Post by crowschmo on Jan 7, 2022 16:50:16 GMT -5
There was a prairie falcon on our umbrella on our deck, but it flew away before I could get a picture.
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Post by crowschmo on Mar 5, 2022 17:59:20 GMT -5
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 17, 2022 16:22:36 GMT -5
There was a peregrine falcon just walking in our yard a few weeks ago and there was a hawk on our umbrella stand - don't know what species it was as it was a "dark morph" or whatever you call them. It was black with a dark brown head. Maybe a red-tailed hawk. ?? Cool though. Didn't get a picture of either.
Also - some years ago there was a bird sitting on our deck rail that was either a whip-poor-will or a nighthawk. Couldn't tell as they look very similar and it was such a long time ago. Didn't get a picture in time before it flew away (it was getting a bit dark, anyway). Had never seen one before or since.
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Post by crowschmo on Jan 28, 2023 16:07:32 GMT -5
I thought I heard a hawk outside the other day and when I looked out, I realized it was a blue jay. I thought, oh the little devil is making a hawk noise to scare the other birds and squirrels away from the feeder to keep the food for itself. Then I DID see a hawk flying overhead and realized that it was making the noise to alert the others there that there was a hawk in the area.
At least I THINK that's what it was doing. Cool.
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