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havalotta · 10-27-2009, 10:12 AM

Equill How come you had to remove the box's?

You would think I would have seen a heron colored like that here since they are so common. But never have......

Equilibrium · 10-28-2009, 01:46 AM

The HOSPs got in and left dead nestlings floating in the water and up against the shoreline by the cattails. We figured we better let the wood ducks take their chances on their own finding a cavity then providing nest boxes for them where they were going to be sitting ducks. Our neighbors feed the house sparrows unwittingly and a few of our neighbors left up martin houses that are nothing but HOSP hotels.

swamp thing · 10-28-2009, 02:14 AM

Quote:

You would think I would have seen a heron colored like that here

Havalotta, the herons Maggy posted don't live anywhere near your area - there are links to their range maps on these pages. BBS map = breeding bird survey, and CBC map = Christmas bird count

Little Blue Heron

Tricolored Heron

The Great Blue Heron has a much wider distribution:

Great Blue Heron

havalotta · 10-29-2009, 07:29 PM

Oh....She has the little blue and we have the great blue. Now I see.

suunto · 11-05-2009, 11:34 AM

Here's yet another from the pre-digital archives; the upside down orientation is deliberate...

Hedgerowe · 11-05-2009, 12:09 PM

Suunto, your photos are increasingly impressing me. You have been underplaying your hand, I think.

havalotta · 11-05-2009, 12:21 PM

That is nice.
It looks like a goose head reflection that way but when you turn it right side up it looks correct.

swamp thing · 11-07-2009, 12:41 AM

Got these Turkey Vulture pics today. Not very good, they were flying pretty fast.

swamp thing · 11-07-2009, 05:12 AM

I saw this woodcock at the native plant garden in Acadia Nat. Park in September. I used to hear them often, and once in a while see them doing their bizzare courtship flight, but never saw one up close before.

And it was amazing. It just would not hold still! It was doing like three different dances at the same time, crazy looking. I was describing it to a friend and I couldn't remember the name of the bird - "you know, about the size of your hand, long pointy beak, and struts around like a chicken...?" He says, "oh, a Timberdoodle!", which is a great name for this bird.

Sorry the pics aren't very good again, but it hopped and strutted and wiggled constantly.

TheLorax · 11-07-2009, 12:55 PM

The sunlight illuminates your turkey vultures wings in the first photo very nicely. Beautiful photo.

10-27-2009, 10:12 AM	#221
havalotta WG Prize & Gift Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Michigan	Equill How come you had to remove the box's? You would think I would have seen a heron colored like that here since they are so common. But never have...... __________________ The successful woman is the woman that had the chance and took it! A walk among the elusive Whitetail Deer

10-28-2009, 01:46 AM	#222
Equilibrium Official Plant Nerd Join Date: Dec 2008	The HOSPs got in and left dead nestlings floating in the water and up against the shoreline by the cattails. We figured we better let the wood ducks take their chances on their own finding a cavity then providing nest boxes for them where they were going to be sitting ducks. Our neighbors feed the house sparrows unwittingly and a few of our neighbors left up martin houses that are nothing but HOSP hotels. __________________ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

10-29-2009, 07:29 PM	#224
havalotta WG Prize & Gift Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Michigan	Oh....She has the little blue and we have the great blue. Now I see. __________________ The successful woman is the woman that had the chance and took it! A walk among the elusive Whitetail Deer

11-05-2009, 11:34 AM	#225
suunto The Bug Whisperer Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Monroe County, WV, USA	Duck!! Here's yet another from the pre-digital archives; the upside down orientation is deliberate... Attached Thumbnails __________________ “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.” Henry Ward Beecher

11-05-2009, 12:21 PM	#227
havalotta WG Prize & Gift Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Michigan	That is nice. It looks like a goose head reflection that way but when you turn it right side up it looks correct. __________________ The successful woman is the woman that had the chance and took it! A walk among the elusive Whitetail Deer

11-05-2009, 12:09 PM	#226
Hedgerowe Pope Join Date: May 2009 Location: Virginia	Suunto, your photos are increasingly impressing me. You have been underplaying your hand, I think.

11-07-2009, 12:41 AM	#228
swamp thing Slapping, Swearing, Itching, Scratching Mosquito Bait Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: pennsylvania,usa	Got these Turkey Vulture pics today. Not very good, they were flying pretty fast. Attached Thumbnails

11-07-2009, 05:12 AM	#229
swamp thing Slapping, Swearing, Itching, Scratching Mosquito Bait Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: pennsylvania,usa	I saw this woodcock at the native plant garden in Acadia Nat. Park in September. I used to hear them often, and once in a while see them doing their bizzare courtship flight, but never saw one up close before. And it was amazing. It just would not hold still! It was doing like three different dances at the same time, crazy looking. I was describing it to a friend and I couldn't remember the name of the bird - "you know, about the size of your hand, long pointy beak, and struts around like a chicken...?" He says, "oh, a Timberdoodle!", which is a great name for this bird. Sorry the pics aren't very good again, but it hopped and strutted and wiggled constantly. Attached Thumbnails

11-07-2009, 12:55 PM	#230
TheLorax Unicellular Fungi Join Date: Nov 2008	The sunlight illuminates your turkey vultures wings in the first photo very nicely. Beautiful photo. __________________ "In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist

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