Got any bird pics?

Stonedfish · Sep 23, 2022

Gyrfalcon22 said:
I remember in the early 2000's when the first Scrub jays showed up where I lived in Olympia. Took another 6-7 years until they moved out here in the coastal areas 40+ miles away. They will dominate the Steller's, but not so bad as to fully run them off but they will run things and it will be loud.

@adamcu280 @riseform if I may ask, what long lenses are you shooting with the OM1? Just curious.

Ospreys are still giving free rides to Largescale suckers here. I never see them with a trout or jack salmon here on this coastal river. Maybe once?
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News at 11:00…..Osprey takes out Mr. Bill.

Great shots!
SF

Bajema · Sep 23, 2022

Looks like double crested

Cabezon · Sep 24, 2022

The main L-shaped pond at the Billy Franks Nisqually Wildlife Refuge often has heavy midge hatches.

This attracts a variety of insectivorous birds that gleam the bugs from the riparian vegetation. These include:
black-capped chickadees

common yellowthroat warbler (female)

scruffy common yellowthroat warbler (probably a juvenile male molting into adult plumage)

yellow warbler (female)

warbling vireo

and willow flycatcher.

And Pacific tree frogs climb out from the wet banks to seek their share of this bounty.

Steve

Tom Butler · Sep 25, 2022

I'm beginning to really notice the photo quality between my phone and other new ones. I talked myself out of a camera, but is a new phone worth it for a new camera. Hummmm.... I snapped this little heron on a couple X zoom, it was gobbling up small fish as I got some bluegill. Anything above 2 just looses so much quality.

RichS · Sep 25, 2022

Northern Flicker

Gyrfalcon22 · Sep 25, 2022

Had a close encounter with a Bald eagle few days back in amazing strong western late sun. It actually started with a seal tearing apart a Chinook salmon. A boat came by and the seal took off. The eagle watched from the perch tree we both hang out at and made the move to get a tail chunk and then proceed to eat it flying size before departing. Bird was 90 feet away by lens focusing measurement.

bottom one for @Wadin' Boot for our love of batshit crazy looking birds. Not the favored immature bird. Still, crazy is crazy.

Gyrfalcon22 · Sep 25, 2022

lens has some bad fringing there..need ED glass ! That is sort of the sequence. Like @Cabezon and others for sure, am a few hard drives behind on looking at all the shots.

Chinook ID shot

Wadin' Boot · Sep 25, 2022

Meaty pics from the golden hour!

riseform · Sep 27, 2022

Cooper's hawk from the weekend, outed by a group of scolding Steller's jays

Wadin' Boot · Sep 27, 2022

It's always amazing to me when say the crows are going nuts and crowds are walking around Green Lake on a busy day and virtually no one seems to look for what the crows are angry at. Most times the outing shows the rarer predator....

Gyrfalcon22 · Sep 27, 2022

Wadin' Boot said:
It's always amazing to me when say the crows are going nuts and crowds are walking around Green Lake on a busy day and virtually no one seems to look for what the crows are angry at. Most times the outing shows the rarer predator....

Last winter here on the coast when I would see dark eagles from a pretty good distance one thing that helped me distinguish if it was "just" another immature bald eagle or the coveted golden eagle was that ravens loudly mauled the golden whenever they had the chance. If I saw a huge dark bird being harrassed by 2-3 big dark birds I paid full attention and it always ended up being the golden.
I seem to never have bald eagles getting much attention from ravens or crows here. Great point @Wadin' Boot.

Canuck from Kansas · Sep 28, 2022

Gyrfalcon22 said:
Last winter here on the coast when I would see dark eagles from a pretty good distance one thing that helped me distinguish if it was "just" another immature bald eagle or the coveted golden eagle was that ravens loudly mauled the golden whenever they had the chance. If I saw a huge dark bird being harrassed by 2-3 big dark birds I paid full attention and it always ended up being the golden.
I seem to never have bald eagles getting much attention from ravens or crows here. Great point @Wadin' Boot.
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It always amazes and fascinates me that crows do this and eagles tolerate it - you would think an eagle could destroy a crow with one good slash of those talons.

cheers

Bonefish Jack · Sep 28, 2022

You folks take way better photos than I. Nevertheless, here is the first Golden-crowned Sparrow of the fall.

Bajema · Sep 28, 2022

Bonefish Jack said:
You folks take way better photos than I. Nevertheless, here is the first Golden-crowned Sparrow of the fall.

Love those sparrows

Bonefish Jack · Sep 28, 2022

Bajema said:
Love those sparrows

Back for the winter

Stonedfish · Sep 30, 2022

Gyrfalcon22 · Sep 30, 2022

Stonedfish said:
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Brian, is there an "after" photo you are saving us from?

Greg Armstrong · Sep 30, 2022

Gyrfalcon22 · Sep 30, 2022

Glad you guys are getting close views of those cool Pileated woodpeckers. Out here coastal they are pretty shy birds. Thanks for posting the photos of them.
There are two birds when I think of dinosaur lineage that are first and foremost on my mind. Pileated woodpeckers and Sandhill cranes. Have been getting sandhills coming through the past 2 weeks or so. It is not good viewing until they cut the corn and the birds actually land..so stuck with fuzzy crops for now.