Triss, You have a Black-Capped Chickadee.

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A bird in the hand......can sometimes be a mess.

Triss - very soon you will be able to pick up their song...

chicka-dee-dee-dee

accent on the first dee

They also can become very tame and eat out of your hands - we fed them when we cross country skied up at Lake Tahoe, and the ones here are almost at that point of trusting me.

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Lynne's knitting journal
"I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???"

Very cool. Will have to listen for them tomorrow. I am just happy they like the new position of the feeder.

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We are all under the same stars... therefore we are never far apart.

Are you talking about these pictures?
Blue Bird Pictures

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Buckle up! It makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car!

Photobucket must have been down last night for some reason.
That doesn't happen very often.

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Buckle up! It makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car!

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do people get tired of all these pics

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No! The topic is "Bird Pictures", so post away!

That egret picture reminded me of a question I have, and maybe you know the answer to it since you know about birds and live in Florida.

I used to go to Florida a lot, and always stopped at a restaurant on I-75 that had some woods beside the parking lot. The trees were filled with huge bird nests, and the birds in the nest were gigantic white birds. Every tree had several nests in it, full of these birds.

Do you have any idea what they were?

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OK, you asked for it! Thank you for such a nice response. As for the birds on I-75. I live up in NW FL and have not done much birding that direction however, my first guess would be that the birds were osprey. They are a bird of prey and would probably have had their nest more near water, they are more shaped like an eagle type bird. They very well could have been the egret in my picture. They roost very high up in tree tops and there are usually a lot of them, more than one nest. That must have been a pretty fun sighting. We also have white ibis which are pretty big I am not too familiar with their nesting habits. Here are a few pics, one of the osprey in my backyard, (not good and clear but OK) and a real bad pic of the osprey pulling a fish out of the lake behind my house.





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Is this heaven?

Beautiful pics MommaD. The sizes are good too! Don't stop posting them cuz we love to see them all.

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Looky, Mark was up fixing the gutter and he came across a mourning dove in its nest.....It must be from the pair that's always in my yard!

I know they are irredescent, Thorny!

But... that does not redeem their OBNOXIOUS BEHAVIOR!!!

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Lynne's knitting journal
"I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???"

Yep Mark took it!!! He had the 30 ft ladder up, and came down to tell me about his find so I sent him back up with the camera!

BTW, I actually don't mind the Grackles too much....I figure they have to eat too....& I think their being irredescent is pretty cool! They actually don't bother too much around here....there are lots of them but they just don't get into my stuff often. Now the Starlings on the other hand....

Easter Sunday morning, as I stepped out on my porch, I was greeted by the traditional Easter bird, the Turkey Vulture! It was wonderful to see such an appropiate symbol of the Holiday flying over the roof of my house (guess I need to finally wash my socks).

Happy Easter to All in the House Below Me


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A bird in the hand......can sometimes be a mess.

Look at our new wren family? Can you hear them..."food, we need food"

That is too cool. Is that nest in one of your planters?

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I love the ger-wren-ium picture.
Is the planter hanging or up high? i'd be afraid of a kitty getting to them down low.

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Summer Camp '07, July 14th weekend, won't you join us?
summer camp thread 1, 2, 3,4

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Pictures of: My back yard "garden" http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2107756626&idx=0
Pictures of :My back yard "visitors" http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2107551253
My water garden in progress http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2106370269

Great pics Starla!

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Male House Finches, American Goldfinches, and Mourning Doves. Good Job!

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Thanks Budman - I wish it was more clear but it's still pretty good!! I appreciate your comment.

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Here is the owl on Saturday after he was extracted from the fence he was stuck in.


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Getting old is the pits. But it sure beats the alternative. My Blog

And posing for a portrait.

I am happy to report that mom and dad are taking excellant care of him. He can be seen most evenings out on a branch doing aerobic exercises to strengthen his wings. He flaps and raises the branch he is clutching several inches. I don't know if he does that all night. We don't keep the same hours.

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Getting old is the pits. But it sure beats the alternative. My Blog

I've seen this little guy hanging out off/on for a couple of years and finally today I had my camera



Is it a kingfisher???

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He is a cool little bird, thorny. I have watched him play! The powerline/phone wire that he hangs out on overlooks an estuary near the mouth of the Kennebec River. There's plenty of fishies in there, must be why he likes it so much. I don't know if it's always been the same one, but only see it solo. I have a good zoom on my camera so I rolled down the car window, got as close as I dared, took pictures, then inched my car down alongside the road and kept zooming in taking pictures, creeping closer and closer until he flew away.

This is actually the closest I got to it:



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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CINDY!!!!!!!

here are some picture's of my Mother's day present
from my little one founded in our garage
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so cute

wow i would not think an adult thorny
boy it was so tiny, but you may be right.What ever it was it was so cute and we enjoyed it so much before we let it go.It wasn't in no hurry
When we held our hand open for her to go,she just sat for a bit then left.
bettyboop1948