Showing posts with label Downy Woodpecker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Downy Woodpecker. Show all posts
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070422 Worth the Waiting For the Best of Nature to Show
070422 Barn Swallow Female Adult (Bottom)
Barn Swallow Juvenile (Top)
The moms had the kids out and they were stretching their wings, as well as being fed. There were eleven Barn Swallows out today, which were mostly young ones. Fortunately, I got a couple of nice photo ops for this holiday.
Closeup of Juvenile Barn Swallow
With the position of the young bird in the top photo, we see a lot more down, but it is the same bird. I believe this one is the youngest bird I have photographed as a photographer.
Female Downy Woodpecker
Either I followed the woodpeckers or they followed me. I saw both the mother and the young male progeny, but her photo is the best out of the two.
This is the first sighting of the gnatcatcher this year. It is nice having them close to home. Luckily, this is the year that my overgrown hotspot is really producing as a second growth riparian area, though there are some older trees here, too.
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Same area netted this beauty, which I knew was around, as it was heard.
dark morph female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Plenty of butterflies out today. This one gave a great viewing the moment that I saw it, so speed was necessary on getting this shot.
0655-0810/80-84 F (heat index 76-86)/partly cloudy/ESE5-S9/71-69% RH/29.98 Hg and steady - 29.98 Hg and rising
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040220 Starring Eared Grebe and American White Pelican Convention
03-21-20
American Crow
Neotropic Cormorant
American White Pelicans
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Eastern Meadowlark
Double-crested Cormorant nearly
in full breeding plumage
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American Robin
03-26-20
Downy Woodpecker (female)
03-27-20
Eared Grebe nearing
full breeding plumage
Migration is clearly an event with several movements, including our late ducks and breeding plumage waterbirds. The one that I refer to especially in this arrival is the Eared Grebe, one of which I personally have never observed in breeding plumage. It was sleeping among a raft of Ruddy Ducks, including two others that I later spied. This grebe had rudely been awakened by a couple of American Coots that rudely ran noisily in front of it. The Eared Grebe made the attempt to return to sleep, but the ruddies awakened and decided to move. To my good fortune, the group swam closer to me and paraded right across me at a reasonable distance and I managed to get a fairly decent shot. At least it was enough to give a good look, since my observations in the past only included winter birds.
The Neotropic Cormorant has also been a fixture in the spring, having been visiting since at least 2015, when my original shots were obtained. We're hoping that it is breeding somewhere in OK.
The Eastern Meadowlark cannot be overlooked, as it is an iconic prairie bird in the great plains. Even though it has been losing population due to loss of habitat and pesticide use, perhaps we can manage to bring some of the numbers back with proper land management.
As of late, the Fish Crows have been more prevalent than the American Crow, and seem to be expanding their range more than the Black Vulture, which is being sighted in OK, too.
Several days prior to this photo there were nearly two dozen American White Pelicans around the Goose Island area. They stayed about four days, though numbers dropped. At one point, they were observed sleeping on the island. The Canada Geese didn't feel threatened, even with eggs in their ground nests.
Migration is clearly an event with several movements, including our late ducks and breeding plumage waterbirds. The one that I refer to especially in this arrival is the Eared Grebe, one of which I personally have never observed in breeding plumage. It was sleeping among a raft of Ruddy Ducks, including two others that I later spied. This grebe had rudely been awakened by a couple of American Coots that rudely ran noisily in front of it. The Eared Grebe made the attempt to return to sleep, but the ruddies awakened and decided to move. To my good fortune, the group swam closer to me and paraded right across me at a reasonable distance and I managed to get a fairly decent shot. At least it was enough to give a good look, since my observations in the past only included winter birds.
The Neotropic Cormorant has also been a fixture in the spring, having been visiting since at least 2015, when my original shots were obtained. We're hoping that it is breeding somewhere in OK.
The Eastern Meadowlark cannot be overlooked, as it is an iconic prairie bird in the great plains. Even though it has been losing population due to loss of habitat and pesticide use, perhaps we can manage to bring some of the numbers back with proper land management.
As of late, the Fish Crows have been more prevalent than the American Crow, and seem to be expanding their range more than the Black Vulture, which is being sighted in OK, too.
Several days prior to this photo there were nearly two dozen American White Pelicans around the Goose Island area. They stayed about four days, though numbers dropped. At one point, they were observed sleeping on the island. The Canada Geese didn't feel threatened, even with eggs in their ground nests.
Sunday, October 27, 2019
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