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Title: Winter Birding
Post by: boneaddict on December 16, 2018, 10:12:06 AM
(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/boneaddict/bucks2/wintbir_zpslmwx9zxw.jpg)
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: boneaddict on December 16, 2018, 10:12:37 AM
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Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: boneaddict on December 16, 2018, 10:13:50 AM
(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/boneaddict/bucks2/blueb_zpsbrl5vxca.jpg)
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Sandberm on December 16, 2018, 11:14:23 AM
Whats that last bird? It doesnt look like any Great Blue Heron I've seen.
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Rufous on December 16, 2018, 11:25:43 AM
Long-eared Owl sighted yesterday during the Audubon Christmas bird count.
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Rufous on December 16, 2018, 11:28:27 AM
Tundra Swans also seen yesterday
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Rufous on December 16, 2018, 11:29:29 AM
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: boneaddict on December 16, 2018, 11:59:35 AM
Awesome editions.  Love the long eared!

(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/boneaddict/bucks2/owl_zpsqj0bx9va.jpg)
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: boneaddict on December 16, 2018, 12:00:50 PM
Whats that last bird? It doesnt look like any Great Blue Heron I've seen.
as far as I know thats what it is...

(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/boneaddict/bucks2/fieldwork_zpsdcckd6bi.jpg)
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on December 16, 2018, 12:05:02 PM
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.
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: lokidog on December 16, 2018, 12:17:57 PM
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.
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Sandberm on December 16, 2018, 12:23:31 PM
Awesome editions.  Love the long eared!

(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/boneaddict/bucks2/owl_zpsqj0bx9va.jpg)

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.
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: nwwanderer 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.
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Rufous 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.

Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Rufous on December 16, 2018, 01:02:25 PM
Trying again with the Great Gray
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Post by: Rufous on December 16, 2018, 01:06:21 PM
More from Ecuador trip.
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Rufous on December 16, 2018, 01:09:00 PM
And more.
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Rufous on December 16, 2018, 01:12:05 PM
More
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: boneaddict on December 16, 2018, 01:21:04 PM
Crazy
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Rufous 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.
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: boneaddict on December 20, 2018, 01:13:21 PM
Not an exotic jungle bird, but still one of my favorites

(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/boneaddict/bucks2/bcw_zps1lqciidj.jpg)
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: ribka on December 20, 2018, 01:57:30 PM
Not an exotic jungle bird, but still one of my favorites

(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/boneaddict/bucks2/bcw_zps1lqciidj.jpg)

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
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Yelper Guy 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.
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: boneaddict 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.
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Yelper Guy on December 20, 2018, 03:05:46 PM
Good call Bone! Now you've got me humming Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen!
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: flyfishWA on December 20, 2018, 07:15:48 PM
Not an exotic jungle bird, but still one of my favorites

(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/boneaddict/bucks2/bcw_zps1lqciidj.jpg)
looks more cool than any of the jungle birds :)
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: boneaddict on December 20, 2018, 08:23:35 PM
Thank you
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Rufous on December 27, 2018, 06:37:45 AM
Northern Pygmy Owl that I saw back in 2010 while hunting deer in the Huckleberry Unit.

(https://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c115/rufous/OWL1A.jpg) (https://s26.photobucket.com/user/rufous/media/OWL1A.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Ricochet on December 27, 2018, 07:01:32 PM
Definitely winter.
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Tree Killer on December 28, 2018, 06:22:49 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/Gllv3No.jpg)
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Tree Killer on December 28, 2018, 06:23:54 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/hP0KF1d.jpg)
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Tree Killer on December 28, 2018, 06:25:07 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/ZnMhJ3S.jpg)
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: boneaddict on December 30, 2018, 11:30:43 AM
How’d you get Towhee out in the “open”.  Lol!   
Great photos. 
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Tree Killer on December 31, 2018, 09:49:14 PM
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.   :chuckle:

(https://i.imgur.com/cldvsMr.jpg)

Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Platensek-po on December 31, 2018, 10:26:33 PM
wow those are awesome pics
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Brute on January 19, 2019, 08:48:23 PM
Nice Shots Guys  :tup:
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: Tree Killer on January 20, 2019, 03:47:08 PM
Golden Crowned Kinglet

(https://i.imgur.com/OMIH5qq.jpg)
Title: Re: Winter Birding
Post by: nalley112 on January 22, 2019, 09:10:45 PM
Few of mine so far from this winter
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