Showing posts with label bird photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bird photos. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Been away for a while...

We apologize for not posting in the last few months. We will try to get a little better about posting regularly. Here are a few photos from the last few months with more to come soon. None of these are in particular order. Take care and good birding!


A Steller's Jay waiting for a handful of peanuts











                                         
A Song Sparrow taking a quick bath

A Bushtit getting ready to take off after grabbing
 some suet

Townsend's and Black-Throated Gray Warblers

3 Warblers bathing at one time! Orange-Crowned,
Black-Throated Gray and Townsend's!

Same 3 little guys

3 Black-Throated Gray Warblers at the same time!
This was a yard record for us. Normally, we
 only get one at a time.

This Orange-Crowned Warbler flew in through
 the garage, then through the kitchen and into the living
 room. He landed on a plant near the ceiling.
It took us a while to get him to fly back out.
This was 2 days after a
Steller's Jay did the same thing.

7 Band-Tailed Pigeons in our backyard. They
are frequent visitors to our yard.

This Band-Tailed Pigeon obviously thought he was a
House Finch. He kept trying, though.

A Wilson's Warbler on one of our hikes

A Hermit Warbler on the same hike

White-Crowned Sparrow on top of Saddle Mt

Evening Grosbeaks fighting over some seed. We think
 that is a House Sparrow in front of them

An Orange-Crowned Warbler in the yard
(not in the living room)

Evening Grosbeaks gathered for some dinner

A female Western Tanager grabbing some suet

Here she is again

We don't think the Evening Grosbeaks liked sharing,
 but no body seemed to want to speak up

A Band-Tailed Pigeon in flight

Evening Grosbeaks waiting for the bird bath

Another Evening Grosbeak

Evening Grosbeaks on the right and a solitary
 Black-Headed Grosbeak to the far left

A female Evening Grosbeak

One of our resident Anna's Hummingbirds in our
 front yard

It really likes the maple tree in the front of the house

Another Anna's eating from the Fringecup

A beautiful male Robin

A Yellow-Rumped warbler pretending to be a
 hummingbird

Yellow-Rumped Warbler grabbing some suet

Every spring we get Anna's Hummingbirds grabbing
bits of dryer lint for their nesting material

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Lincoln's Sparrow!

This morning we found a Lincoln's Sparrow in the backyard! We have only had this visitor once before and that was when there was nearly 2 feet of snow on the ground a couple of winters ago.

Here are a couple of photos. It isn't letting us get very close but we are trying to get some better shots.

Lincoln's Sparrow


Another shot of it.

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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Merlin

We just saw a Merlin in NE Portland! This is the first time that we have seen this bird in our part of town. What a great treat!





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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Sandy River Delta

Michelle and I went out to the Sandy River Delta this morning and spent about 6 hours there. It was our first time to bird this area and what a trip it was! We saw four Life List birds and 46 species total! It was a great time and we hope you enjoy the photos.

Lewis's Woodpecker! The sky was a drab gray, so we had to lighten the photo for you to be able to see any detail. Not a good photo, but you can definitely see what it is!


Another of the Lewis's.


One more just because we were so excited to see it! A Life List bird for us!


Bullock's Oriole! They were everywhere. Every path we took we ran into more Orioles. It was great! Another Life List bird.



A Yellow-Breasted Chat! This was another wonderful Life Lister for us!


Singing away just off one of the many paths.


A Green Heron trying to hide.


Then he decided to come out for a little photo op.


A Hermit Thrush let us get pretty close.


A gorgeous Yellow-Rumped Warbler.

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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

A few photos

Here are a few photos from around the yard over the last few days. As always, we hope you enjoy them!

One of the 9 Band-Tailed Pigeons that are still coming in the yard everyday. Very unusual for this time of year.


The local Bewick's Wren grabbing a bite of suet.


One of the many Yellow-Rumped Warblers we get in the yard. This guy came in when we had our unexpected snow storm a couple of weeks ago.


Robins snacking on one of our Pyracantha shrubs. They really enjoyed the berries.



They picked this bush clean in just a couple of days. Notice the center Robin is just about to swallow a berry?


Another Yellow-Rumped Warbler, same feeder.


We noticed this Song Sparrow on our fence the other morning. What really caught our eye was the spider web stuck to his head.

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