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Post by bowbum on Jan 21, 2017 10:52:36 GMT -5
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Post by dennyf on Jan 21, 2017 20:47:28 GMT -5
These with the new camera?
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Post by Muab Dib on Jan 22, 2017 8:09:54 GMT -5
Wow! Beautiful Pics Bow!
Muab
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Post by Loggy on Jan 22, 2017 8:37:07 GMT -5
Some excellent photos there Bowbum!!
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Post by bowbum on Jan 22, 2017 8:49:48 GMT -5
These with the new camera? Yes, been putting it through it's paces. So far so good. |
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Post by Loggy on Jan 22, 2017 8:52:12 GMT -5
Based on these first shots out of the gate I think you got a winner!!
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Post by ridgecommander on Jan 22, 2017 9:01:33 GMT -5
I saw my first ever Gold Crowned Kinglet last week. Did not know what it was till I looked it up in my bird book.
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Post by bowbum on Jan 22, 2017 9:09:53 GMT -5
I saw my first ever Gold Crowned Kinglet last week. Did not know what it was till I looked it up in my bird book. That's the fun of it huh? Looking stuff up and making discoveries. I knew nothing about snowy owls until one showed up here. What I've learned is really surprising behavior from how I assumed owls conducted their routine lives. |
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Post by ridgecommander on Jan 22, 2017 9:20:26 GMT -5
That's the fun of it huh? Certainly! A group of 4 came through while I was archery hunting. I studied them for a bit then looked them up when I got home.  I am always on the lookout for Scarlet Tanagers while hunting spring gobbler. In my opinion, they are one of the most beautiful birds we have passing through in Pa. Some years I see several, some years none. Many people in Pa have never seen one. I saw two males and one female this past spring.  |
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Post by bowbum on Jan 22, 2017 9:32:59 GMT -5
Beautiful birds. We see a wide variety of birds but the tanagers have eluded "good" photo opportunities so far. Got a few mediocre pictures but nothing good.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2017 10:12:33 GMT -5
The first one has me a bit puzzled, bowbum. It looks like a golden crowned kinglet, but don't they usually have black wing bars? That's the fun of it huh? Certainly! A group of 4 came through while I was archery hunting. I studied them for a bit then looked them up when I got home. I am always on the lookout for Scarlet Tanagers while hunting spring gobbler. In my opinion, they are one of the most beautiful birds we have passing through in Pa. Some years I see several, some years none. Many people in Pa have never seen one. I saw two males and one female this past spring. |
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Post by bowbum on Jan 22, 2017 11:18:33 GMT -5
Ridgecommander has it as a golden crowned and, while I am not familiar with that species enough to ID them, I believe he is right. My Sibleys book does describe it as "boldly patterned wings." Oops! I see there is actually a drawing showing the wing bar.
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Post by redarrow on Jan 22, 2017 11:26:52 GMT -5
Those are great pics! I especially like the photo of the chickadee. I think of those as my good-luck bird.
I hope you post more of your pics-they could be used for specie identification photos.
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Post by bowbum on Jan 22, 2017 11:46:44 GMT -5
The first one has me a bit puzzled, bowbum. It looks like a golden crowned kinglet, but don't they usually have black wing bars? It looks unanimous George. I checked my Nat Geo "Birds of North America".... states "two wing bars." My Audubon states: "two dull white wing bars." My "Birds of Pennsylvania, (Stan Tekiela), states; "two white wing bars." Sibleys refers to some hybridization but does not describe the wing bars. Ok, my curiosity is satisfied ... gotta go help Kate cook for the inlaws now.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2017 11:56:06 GMT -5
Yep. I also looked it up, and my misteak (sp). White wing bars. I was going from memory.
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Post by dennyf on Jan 22, 2017 13:12:51 GMT -5
Great pics, Bob.
Another vote for chickadees as omens of good luck while hunting.
Don't see as many at camp as I used to. More than once while sitting still in deer season, had small flocks of them flitting around me, scratching around in the leaves near my feet and some times landing close by. Once had one briefly land on my rifle barrel, then hop up to a branch. Had some here at the bird feeder a few weeks ago.
Now and then get some finches here. Cardinals are back at the feeder, but haven't seen/heard any jays lately. Doves don't bother the feeder itself, but often gather on the ground under it. Used to have a covered, cylindrical feeder for small seeds, hanging from a clothesline post, but the squirrels destroyed it. They can't get up to the larger wood feeder out back and it drives 'em nuts trying. I sprinkle some shelled corn on a tree stump to keep them busy.
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Post by bowbum on Jan 22, 2017 19:30:39 GMT -5
Yep. I also looked it up, and my misteak (sp). White wing bars. I was going from memory. Boy, if I went from memory on bird ID's I'd be sunk. Another skill that has eluded me is recognizing the songs of less common birds. I am completely lost on thrushes and warblers. I'm starting to recognize, (visual), vireos but from the end of one migration to the beginning of the next, I forget practically everything. I guess one way to look at it is that if one enjoys the search to identify, then a terrible memory is ....ah, fun??? |
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Post by bowbum on Jan 22, 2017 19:34:54 GMT -5
Great pics, Bob. Another vote for chickadees as omens of good luck while hunting. Don't see as many at camp as I used to. More than once while sitting still in deer season, had small flocks of them flitting around me, scratching around in the leaves near my feet and some times landing close by. Once had one briefly land on my rifle barrel, then hop up to a branch. Had some here at the bird feeder a few weeks ago. Now and then get some finches here. Cardinals are back at the feeder, but haven't seen/heard any jays lately. Doves don't bother the feeder itself, but often gather on the ground under it. Used to have a covered, cylindrical feeder for small seeds, hanging from a clothesline post, but the squirrels destroyed it. They can't get up to the larger wood feeder out back and it drives 'em nuts trying. I sprinkle some shelled corn on a tree stump to keep them busy. Denny, when I located here my wildlife wishes had everything to do with deer and turkeys. Gradually I realized I have as big of and a constant reward in the birds that habituate and migrate here. The snowy owl of course, is the highlight of all things birds for me. Something I never contemplated seeing and especially not just 20 miles away where I could drive easily to see it. Even then I thought it would be here and gone before I would see it but Todd Plank educated me on their migration trends and I'm sure glad he did. |
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Post by dennyf on Jan 22, 2017 22:16:35 GMT -5
I like seeing songbirds around too, but don't tell anyone. The only birds I've come to detest, are the thousands of blackbirds that show up here twice a year and infest the woods out back. While I love seeing eagles, wish they (and the bobcats) would leave me a few woodchucks to shoot at in the summer at camp?
Todd is okay, for a big oaf and he takes excellent pictures, like you do.
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Post by 3212 on Jan 23, 2017 1:03:39 GMT -5
Great pictures,worthy of publication in a book or magazine.I don't think I've told this story on this forum.A few years ago I was taking a walk along hwy 19 on the west coast of Florida.In that area the utility has erected nest platforms on some poles for ospreys and eagles.Its very close to the gulf of Mexico.An osprey flew over with a fish in its talons.An eagle dove on it.Another osprey flew in and an aerial battle broke out.The osprey dropped the fish and the eagle landed and picked it up.He took off low across the highway into the side of a pickup truck.Broke his neck.
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