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[Seattle]

Common Murre

 

[pinelaker]

IMG_7951 by Jason, on Flickr

[redcoot]

41 minutes ago, pinelaker said:

IMG_7951 by Jason, on Flickr

They look like they are having a very deep conversation!

[Ned]

Here is an oddity for these parts....  a Northern Gannet on the shores on Rye NH.

A very cooperative subject was he !

 

[bearcat6]

[pictaker]

Little blue heron fledgling

 

[Ned]

[bearcat6]

[Johnd]

 

Northen Kingbird Anahauc NWR 7-18

 

Northen Kingbird Anahauc NWR 7-18 by johnd1964, on Flickr

[Ned]

The Eastern Bluebird

 

 

[pictaker]

[HamRHead]

Today--a Swallow-tailed Kite. With a 4ft wingspan these are sizeable birds. They are amazingly agile and graceful.

[Bird Brain]

Nice shots, HamRHead!!

[Ned]

A Cattle Egret sitting on a nest one drizzly afternoon.

 

Edited August 12, 2018 by Ned

[pictaker]

Mississippi Kite feeding fledgling a cicada

[GracesWarbler]

Went out to my favorite birding spot last weekend.  Here's a hummingbird.  Is it a Broad-tailed (this is in Flagstaff, Arizona)?

Here's a female Yellow-headed Blackbird.  I've seen a bunch of males (to be fair, they are quite distinctive), but this is my first time noticing one of the females.

I'd never seen one of these before.  It's a Sora, and it ran off into the reeds practically as soon as I took this picture.

Edited August 12, 2018 by GracesWarbler
Added more info.

[bearcat6]

[Ned]

Not much more beautiful than a fledgling Barn Swallow

[dred]

 

[bearcat6]

[pictaker]

[Ned]

These fledglings patiently perch fairly close together while the parents acrobatically swoop through the sky catching up bugs along the way. The young hear their parents calling on their return and when they come in close, each young'n makes noise and flutter up a storm, trying to attract the most attention.

"Pick Me ! Pick Me !"

Edited August 14, 2018 by Ned

[dred]

 

[bearcat6]

[JimB]

Henslow's Sparrow.