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Birds around our Home ~ through 2012 ~ |
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Birds around our Home ~ through 2012 ~ |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2004-2014) |
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| Muscovy ducks visiting our driveway |
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| Silhouette of Turkey Vulture spreading its wings. There was a pair; the only time we've seen them in our yard in 28 years! (Shot through a fogged-up window...) |
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| Red-tailed Hawk in the back yard |
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| Another view after it shifted position Not bad for hand-held, through a dirty porch window... |
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| Sequence of a female ruby-throated hummingbird feeding: |
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| 1 ~ Nectar-covered tongue as she withdraws from feeder... |
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| 2 ~ Hovering between sips... |
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| 3 ~ Back to the feeder... |
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| Another hovering hummingbird Hard to get a sharp hand-held hummer shot with all their flitting around... |
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Hummers feeding at cardinal flowers: |
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| Tried a low flash on this hummer shot |
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| Cardinal, still showing a trace of summertime scruffiness... |
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| Red Bellied Woodpecker |
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| Another, with a chunk of suet, a few days later... |
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| Female ruby-throater hummer perched on feeder |
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| Female Downy Woodpecker, alternating at the suet feeder with... |
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| The male Downy, her mate. |
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| Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
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| Barred owl at twilight - January 2012 |
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| Well-fed cardinal ! |
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| Sandhill cranes, high overhead, heading north |
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| Juvenile male ruby-throated hummingbird |
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A few shots of a Barred Owl in our back yard - September 2012 |
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| Napping... |
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