Joel....looks to me to be a female black headed grosbeak.....my only doubt is your home isn't in their normal range.
Joel....looks to me to be a female black headed grosbeak.....my only doubt is your home isn't in their normal range.
I looked closely in my Peterson's and I considered that but could not convince myself although I think it is a grosbeak or finch
I am wondering if it's an immature male rose-breasted grosbeak....they migrate through here.
you're probably right.....when I looked at the RB grosbeaks, the first years had a chest w/faint red.....which should becoming visible this far into the season.
But then, it could be a 2nd brood hatchling which would mean no faint red and a more tawny chest this time of year.
Here we have my first "Codibugnolo"!
There were five or seven of them moving like crazy inside a big tree, all in penumbra so catching one of them was a work of patience and reflexes!
Codibugnolo by Andrea Magnelli, su Flickr
Spent a couple of hours on Plum Island yesterday...
"Egret Umbrella"
EOS 1D X, EF 600mm f/4L IS II + EF 1.4x III Extender, 1/2500 s, f/6.3, ISO 500
Last edited by neuroanatomist; 10-07-2015 at 06:02 PM.
"Egret Umbrella"-- Breathtaking!
Hard to follow some of the recent posts, so here is something more light-hearted that I recently re-edited.
Bird and bee by Danny Watson, on Flickr
Feather floating away during preening
1C8A4483.jpg by hdnitehawk01, on Flickr
And another pose
1C8A4484.jpg by hdnitehawk01, on Flickr
Last edited by HDNitehawk; 10-12-2015 at 03:04 AM.
Great Bald Eagles....still on my bucket list to go to Haines Alaska and the Chilkat Eagle Reserve!
Just looked up Haines. This is the time of year to go.Originally Posted by Joel Eade
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