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yeah, they'll skewer grasshoppers, caterpillars, lizards, whatever yummy thing they've caught. I don't know if they only do it certain times of year---i.e., if they're anticipating scarcity---or if it's a year-round behavior.

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8 days camping in Western Colorado and 5 new birds: Juniper Titmouse, Mountain Bluebird, Black-billed Magpie, Clark's Nutcracker, Gray Jay. Beautiful!!!

love the closeup of the mourning dove -  looks like Mimi from the Drew Carey show with the beginner blue eyeshadow! :)

kbaumann:

love the closeup of the mourning dove -  looks like Mimi from the Drew Carey show with the beginner blue eyeshadow! :)

LMAO

Thanks, kbaumann, now I'll never be able to look at another mourning dove without thinking about Mimi...a visual I could do without...LOL

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Not your typical wire perching bird, at least not in my experience.

 

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My unorganized pictures can be viewed at

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Here's a savannah sparrow on a wire

 

 

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Canon 40D, 100-400
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Say's Phoebe brought to you by Alcatel.

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Latest Birds: Black-throated Green Warbler, Pine Warbler, Eastern Kingbird, Rufous-backed Robin, Crissal Thrasher

Swainson's Hawk, light phase.... sitting on a power line. I have found Swainson's to be the easiest of all Hawks to photograph. They seem less disturbed by human presence, and at times seem to pose for the camera! This was one of those times, fortunately for me.

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We did not inherit Mother Earth from our ancestors...... we have borrowed Her from our descendants.
Chief Seattle (paraphrased)

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No vacancy.  Brown-headed Cowbirds.

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Latest Birds: Black-throated Green Warbler, Pine Warbler, Eastern Kingbird, Rufous-backed Robin, Crissal Thrasher

That is an impressive capture Matt... you can determine exactly how much personal space cowbirds need.

Fraser

Matt:

No vacancy.  Brown-headed Cowbirds.

WOOOOWWWWW!!!!  I've never seen so many in one place!  I still wonder -- HOW do the cowbirds finally find each other, when they are raised by another species????  They obviously DO find each other but not sure how - must be instinct.  Birds are just amazing creatures in many ways!

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Life List: 139
Latest: Cedar Waxwing!!!!!!!

DORD, very nice photo! Here's mine of Violet-green Swallow. Taking photos at dusk during work trip to Salem. The Capitol dome and a historic steeple can be seen from the top of a nearby parking garage so I grabbed my camera when I wandered upon this little feathered friend.The first shot I was thinking "Wow it landed and I have my camera." Second shot I was thinking "This bird is posing." Third shot I knew "This bird is a ham!" Bird's eye view, top of Liberty St Parking Garage Salem OR

 

 

 

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"Watch the birdie."
Latest: Greater Roadrunner, and Merlin.

 She was quite taken with him.

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116 birds photographed and IDed.

Multiple birds on multiple wires.