Got any bird pics?

[Wadin' Boot]

Thank you all for putting up such consistently great content, I find this thread super relaxing, really interesting and amazingly free of nonsense. Just cool observations, pictures and so on!

 

[Jim F.]

Had to look up to see what a hooded merganser x wood duck cross would look like.
Interesting.

Me too! The hybrids seem to inherit the Merganser bill. Added another entry to my bird bucket list.

 

[Kilchis]

Red—tailed Hawk. Ornithologists recognize 14 sub-species and 3 color morphs. Whichever of those this bird is, I'm pretty sure it's depressed.

 

[Jim F.]

Another great morning with the Pterodactyls - lots & lots of Sandhills, plus a lone Woodie and a couple drake Wigeons that look like a cross with a Eurasian Wigeon.

 

[Jim F.]

Maybe it wasn't Coyotes I heard?
I'm outta here . . .

 

[SKYKO]

Crummy cell pic of Herons in the rookery, hard to see in this image but there were a dozen at least.

 

[Gyrfalcon22]

No fancy cropping, it is hard to keep a Short-eared owl centered. Sometimes it works out, or sometimes you lose a wing or lose the whole bird in a flash as they bounce, flap and dive quite erradically- and on a dime!

 

[Bajema]

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No fancy cropping, it is hard to keep a Short-eared owl centered. Sometimes it works out, or sometimes you lose a wing or lose the whole bird in a flash as they bounce, flap and dive quite erradically- and on a dime!

I actually really like that framing. It’s feels more dynamic or something.

 

[Gyrfalcon22]

I actually really like that framing. It’s feels more dynamic or something.

Yes. Actually, meant I sort of walked into that balance without trying. It seems the owl has no choice but to dip into the lower right corner at that moment.
: )

 

[Gyrfalcon22]

Love northern shovelers
Below: female green-winged teal blends into the shadow of a balanced female northern shoveler as a pintail cruises by

 

[Kilchis]

Cinnamon drake.

 

[RRSmith]

Cinnamon drake.

LOVE this photo of one of my favorite birds! A portion of the North American population of cinnamon teal are true neotropical migrants and there's a separate population that resides in South America. We banded 100's during in Northern California and had several recovered in Mexico and as far south as Guatemala.

 

[Porter2]

 

[Stonedfish]

 

[Gary Knowels]

From the pond at Pt. Defiance. There were hundreds of more across the pond and grassy areas.

 

[RichS]

 

[SculpinSwinger]

Pixelated cell phone shot of an Anna’s

 

[Jim F.]

Dunkers, Daters and an Otter Impersonator.

 

[Jim F.]

And I just noticed a Turtle photobombing . . .

 

[Zak]

There was a fuzzy headed interloper hanging out with the mallards on my dog walk this morning. Is it a merganser?