Birding and Bird Photography

Good catch ! I like the feeling of the day in that shot.

 

Speaking of Kestrels.... meet Falco Sparverius !

 

A pair of kestrels sharing a pole, a white-crowned sparrow, a kingfisher in the rain and a sanderling running around the beach.

 

Just read an article about the Barred Owls spreading out west and out competing the Spotted. Plans in the works to start culling them.

 

As much as I like them, ravens are becoming an issue in the desert around where desert tortoises are also- some pairs of ravens have been found with over 100 baby tortoise shells under their nests, each with a hole pecked through their top. Ravens are also teaching their young to do this as well. So there’s a similar program for culling those as well.

 

While we are on the subject; Nearly every bird we encountered on vacation to our 50th state was introduced. Here's a crumby shot of some java sparrows, mourning doves, and what they call "red jungle fowl" locally. Chickens, cattle egrets, house sparrows, and mina birds dominate the landscape we created there. The few pacific golden plover may have been the only visitors that came on their own that we saw!

 

I am being watched. Do I look OK How do I smell? They are following me

 

There has been a Red-flanked Bluetail hanging around for a month in the neighboring town. Hundreds of people have been traveling to see it. Some drove 11 hours one way to see the little bird from Russia. Who knows how or why it showed up in NJ.

 

Iceland Gull, NJ

 

Sometimes you have to put in the hard work to get the picture. Other times you just sit around with a beer in hand and stick a camera out the window.

 

cell phone pic Owl in front yard

 

Cardinals at dusk, good contrast with the trees...

 

Speed!!

 

Some mergansers showed up this week.

 

Very nice capture!

 

A congregation of Egrets.

 

Forgot this thread existed. After a ten year hiatus, I refreshed my camera gear and have been back into it as the migration is underway. Have had decent success so far. Here's a few of the good ones this year.