What Bird Did You See Today?
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I took my bird nerd wife out on a hike up around Bearfort Ridge and Hank's Pond on Saturday to do some birding. She likes the little birds which generally hang out at the top of the trees and move around a lot. She was hoping to see some warblers and get some good pics. It's tough to get good pics, because they tend to just not sit still for more than a second or two. It requires patience and a lot of standing around.
Blackburnian Warbler. This guy was super cool, and probably the best bird we saw, but he wouldn't come close enough for a good pic, and he flew away and we didn't see another one.
Black-and-white Warbler. We saw a few of these guys on the Highlands Trail heading up toward Bearfort Ridge.
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. We saw two of these guys up on the ridge, and they followed us for a while. They were super curious and friendly, but that's probably because we were playing bird songs on the iphone and they were looking for the hot female gnatcatcher.
Blackburnian Warbler. This guy was super cool, and probably the best bird we saw, but he wouldn't come close enough for a good pic, and he flew away and we didn't see another one.
Black-and-white Warbler. We saw a few of these guys on the Highlands Trail heading up toward Bearfort Ridge.
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. We saw two of these guys up on the ridge, and they followed us for a while. They were super curious and friendly, but that's probably because we were playing bird songs on the iphone and they were looking for the hot female gnatcatcher.
jklett
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Looks like a turkey primary to me. Got any arrows to fletch?
serviceguy
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Nice pictures! What camera is she using? Unfortunately my last decent camera is a film camera so I can only take iPhone 6s quality pictures now, which prevents me from identifying the weird bird of prey that keeps sitting on the same branch until being harassed by the blue jays...I assumed it was some juvenile hawk, but looking at him flying seems more like a fat hawk...
Canon EOS 7D with a 70-200mm zoom lens. She was a professional photographer for a while, so it's a pretty serious camera/lens. We call it the uber camera.
rick81721
Lothar
Found a dove's nest while walking thru my yard yesterday
hey take some pics when they hatch. why is it you never see small pigeons or doves?
rick81721
Lothar
yeah those are great pics - I just assumed those were Google pics of what you saw
mwlikesbikes
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Saw that the Ospreys are back at their nest in Hartshorne, one was in the nest while her partner was sitting in the tree nearby.
Kaleidopete
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I don't know what it is, but it's big.
I was so excited to see one today as well at Stephens. It's been several years since I've seen one, the colors were so vibrant. I tried pointing it out to 6er but it flew away before he could spot it.
Stock photo.
