All About Pocket Knives

Swallowtailed Kite yesterday

TripleF wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2023 9:51 am Swallowtailed Kite yesterday

Good capture Scott. Kites haven't returned here yet

Last week I took our Grand Kids to a park near our home.

In Australia, the Sulphur-crested Cockatoos are always around, look to be feed. Ken

With a bag of food, everyone's your friend!
The Emu, is your first up-close friend.

koldgold wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 3:54 am With a bag of food, everyone's your friend!
The Emu, is your first up-close friend.

Great shots, cool bird pics and the little furry one.

Interesting birds and animals and a precious grand daughter.

Maggie and I love birds. Up north we had nesting pairs of orioles, red headed woodpeckers, ruby throated hummers, along with cardinals, robins, meadowlarks, eastern bluebirds,, blue Jay's, red bellied, downy and hairy woodpeckers, barred owls and the usual wrens, Titmice sparrows etc.


Down south we have lots of bluebirds, carolina wrens, mockingbird, sparrows, crows, pleated and red bellied woodpeckers, towhees, flycatchers, mourning doves, Jay's, cardinals and a few more we haven't identified.

Nice.

A few weeks ago, we had several pictures of some of a Great Egret and a couple of Little Blue Herons feeding in the overflow at one of the farm ponds.
Maybe one week we'll get a good picture of a Great Blue Heron. Treefarmer

The Blue Jays I feed recently started bringing their newest addition to the family around. Not quite all blue yet, lots of fuzzy grey and sketchy, won't come in close like the parents. But I still got a shot of him/her.

Mr. and Mrs. Baltimore Oriole enjoying some grape jelly In our back yard

Ma Mallard and the Misfits.

Guys,
I am attaching a photo of a very colorful bird and the photo was taken in my daughters yard. She lives about 35 miles east of here in a newly acquired home.
This bird is much more colorful than any we have here and I have no clue as to its identity. With that much color I assume it is a male and I also assume the other bird is a juvenile.
If anyone knows the ID on this beauty please help us out.

Ray

Paladin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 2:42 am Guys,
I am attaching a photo of a very colorful bird and the photo was taken in my daughters yard. She lives about 35 miles east of here in a newly acquired home.
This bird is much more colorful than any we have here and I have no clue as to its identity. With that much color I assume it is a male and I also assume the other bird is a juvenile.
If anyone knows the ID on this beauty please help us out.

Ray

Ray, it is a Painted Bunting. Actually a male and female. Not uncommon but not seen a lot.

doglegg wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 2:58 am

Paladin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 2:42 am Guys,
I am attaching a photo of a very colorful bird and the photo was taken in my daughters yard. She lives about 35 miles east of here in a newly acquired home.
This bird is much more colorful than any we have here and I have no clue as to its identity. With that much color I assume it is a male and I also assume the other bird is a juvenile.
If anyone knows the ID on this beauty please help us out.

Ray

Ray, it is a Painted Bunting. Actually a male and female. Not uncommon but not seen a lot.

Thanks, Doglegg, I appreciate the help. I had never seen one before and had no clue. I'll pass the info along to my daughter.

Ray

Been trying to catch this barred owl for weeks but he always seems to elude me when the light is still good. But the other day I got him.

The difficulty makes it an extra good catch.

Thanks Quick. Definitely makes you look for and appreciate the rare moment of seeing them. So satisfying to finally get a pic.

Which begs the question,
Who, who, who cooks for you?
I'm sure you've seen the plan for them to be shot as they are crowding out the spotted owls.

doglegg wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:49 pm,,,,,,,,,,,,,
I'm sure you've seen the plan for them to be shot as they are crowding out the spotted owls.

Don't they know it's not nice to mess with Mother Nature!

Ray

Paladin wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 4:42 pm

doglegg wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:49 pm,,,,,,,,,,,,,
I'm sure you've seen the plan for them to be shot as they are crowding out the spotted owls.

Don't they know it's not nice to mess with Mother Nature!

Ray

Ray, seems when we fix things it sometimes just makes it worse although this seems reasonable.

Bitter Lake north Seattle. Ducks and geese coming up like they're used to being fed. Lame pics, but bald eagles hunting from the light poles in the park.

A Barretts Golden eye and some swans from a recent trip to Jackson, Wyoming.

Nice pictures, Ivoryman and doglegg.