Author Topic: Winter Birding (Read 8227 times)

Quote from: Sandberm on December 16, 2018, 11:14:23 AM
Whats that last bird? It doesnt look like any Great Blue Heron I've seen.

If you google them you can see a lot of difference in color phases they have.

It's a young of the year, I would guess.

Sandberm · « **Reply #11 on:** December 16, 2018, 12:23:31 PM »

Quote from: boneaddict on December 16, 2018, 11:59:35 AM

Awesome editions. Love the long eared!

I've lived in the same area my whole life (48 years)and as a boy on up through maybe 40 years I would sporadically see great horned owls. Always cool when I did btw. But the last 8 or so years I've started to see them more and more to the point now where they are common. I often wonder if at the same time they are the reason I have seen less and less quail over the past decade??? 20 years ago quail ran across my yard all the time and it seemed every bunch of thick trees had a covey. Now I just see the odd covey here and there.

nwwanderer · « **Reply #12 on:** December 16, 2018, 12:28:47 PM »

Yes, they will set on a covey. I have seen quail so terrified they do not move as the owl waddles over and takes them.

Rufous · « **Reply #13 on:** December 16, 2018, 01:01:43 PM »

Here is a Great Gray owl I saw in the Blue Mountains several years ago as well as a couple Burrowing Owls I saw in Ecuador in November.

Rufous · « **Reply #14 on:** December 16, 2018, 01:02:25 PM »

Trying again with the Great Gray

Rufous · « **Reply #15 on:** December 16, 2018, 01:06:21 PM »

More from Ecuador trip.

Rufous · « **Reply #16 on:** December 16, 2018, 01:09:00 PM »

And more.

Rufous · « **Reply #17 on:** December 16, 2018, 01:12:05 PM »

boneaddict · « **Reply #18 on:** December 16, 2018, 01:21:04 PM »

Crazy

Rufous · « **Reply #19 on:** December 16, 2018, 01:50:10 PM »

Yes it is pretty wild down there. I was there a week and saw 230 species, much more than I have seen in the 28 months I have been in Michigan. My parents moved down there 7 years ago from WA State.

boneaddict · « **Reply #20 on:** December 20, 2018, 01:13:21 PM »

Not an exotic jungle bird, but still one of my favorites

ribka · « **Reply #21 on:** December 20, 2018, 01:57:30 PM »

Quote from: boneaddict on December 20, 2018, 01:13:21 PM

Not an exotic jungle bird, but still one of my favorites

Always have a large group of these hang out in my crab apple tree in December when they come through the Wenas valley. Neat birds

Yelper Guy · « **Reply #22 on:** December 20, 2018, 02:22:59 PM »

"Always have a large group of these hang out in my crab apple tree in December when they come through the Wenas valley. Neat birds"

That would be the Cedar Waxwing - they are really cool.
In the pic you can barely make out a small piece of red, next to the white on it's back.
That's the waxwing part of this bird. It's not really a feather, I'm not sure what it is called. It almost seems synthetic, or waxy.

boneaddict · « **Reply #23 on:** December 20, 2018, 02:35:52 PM »

One of my favorites for sure. I think this is the Bohemian waxwing. Mostly similar, little bigger.

Yelper Guy · « **Reply #24 on:** December 20, 2018, 03:05:46 PM »

Good call Bone! Now you've got me humming Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen!

flyfishWA · « **Reply #25 on:** December 20, 2018, 07:15:48 PM »

Quote from: boneaddict on December 20, 2018, 01:13:21 PM

Not an exotic jungle bird, but still one of my favorites

looks more cool than any of the jungle birds

boneaddict · « **Reply #26 on:** December 20, 2018, 08:23:35 PM »

Thank you

Rufous · « **Reply #27 on:** December 27, 2018, 06:37:45 AM »

Northern Pygmy Owl that I saw back in 2010 while hunting deer in the Huckleberry Unit.

Ricochet · « **Reply #28 on:** December 27, 2018, 07:01:32 PM »

Definitely winter.

Tree Killer · « **Reply #29 on:** December 28, 2018, 06:22:49 PM »

Tree Killer · « **Reply #30 on:** December 28, 2018, 06:23:54 PM »

Tree Killer · « **Reply #31 on:** December 28, 2018, 06:25:07 PM »

boneaddict · « **Reply #32 on:** December 30, 2018, 11:30:43 AM »

How’d you get Towhee out in the “open”. Lol!
Great photos.

Tree Killer · « **Reply #33 on:** December 31, 2018, 09:49:14 PM »

Quote from: boneaddict on December 30, 2018, 11:30:43 AM

How’d you get Towhee out in the “open”. Lol!
Great photos.

They come in and land in the vine maple a few feet from my feeder. I remove the screen from my bathroom window and have the window open just wide enough for my lens. They get used to big black eye pretty fast.