Any Bird Watchers Out There? Info/Pics
Ive been keeping water out for birds in the back yard, and usually it's sparrows, magpies, ravens, and the occasional chickadee. I just had my first sighting of a Red-breasted Nuthatch (?). Im thinking the one that was drinking out back had three black stripes on the head though, and looked a little sleeker. Does that ring a bell with anyone? Anyways, I really enjoyed his visit (this is not my picture)...
http://www.tringa.org/images/6913_Re...-07-2008_4.jpg If anyone is interested, feel free to post sightings, pictures, etc on this thread. |
If it were simple to post I have some amazing pictures I took of a mother canary feeding her chicks. The nest was right off my campsight last trip I went on. After a couple days the chicks were out of the nest and racing around on the ground like a cheeta on cowcain 😁. It was cool to watch!
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Here are a couple from this past summer: Wilson's Snipe https://scontent.fyyc5-1.fna.fbcdn.n...9b&oe=5C1F9810 Western Grebe https://scontent.fyyc5-1.fna.fbcdn.n...fd&oe=5C19CF8B |
Wilson's Snipe
It sure looks like a Woodcock. I grew up in SW Ontario and we hunted woodcock and that one sure looks like a woodcock but I doubt if we get them in Alberta
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Alacringa... what kind of birds? First is a snipe(Wilson's?) Im guessing
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Op is likely referring to the goldfinch. we always called them wild canaries. |
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The most common bird here mistaken for a Canary is the Yellow Warbler |
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The 'canary' could have been a yellow warbler too.
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The title asks if there are any bird watchers on site, there are. I am one of many here.
I also conduct bird watching outings for a friends guest ranch and I am a birdwatching pal. That is a volunteer organization that provides an internet platform for local bird watchers to offer help and advice to visitors or newcomers to their home region. I also have tons of photos of local birds and animals, many of which I have posted here before. I'll see if I can find something I haven't posted yet. |
Love to watch them, got a bunch of Birdee pics, too ... here's a few, more to follow.
D. Yellow-bellied sapsucker hates my Owl! https://i.imgur.com/pbht97e.jpg So does this Downy male Woodpecker, drilled a hole in it! https://i.imgur.com/2bFIHOW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/4oCvEun.jpg Mr Osprey the Fish Eagle came over to eat its lunch on our pole a few times this summer https://i.imgur.com/OGjToaW.jpg Tree Swallows nested again this year https://i.imgur.com/EsnK8e0.jpg Pileated Woodpecker https://i.imgur.com/hdy4t8N.jpg[/IMG] https://i.imgur.com/PwoQ7w7.jpg https://i.imgur.com/opbazdE.jpg Goldfinch’s visited often, gone now. https://i.imgur.com/re3OBB7.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SCgliik.jpg |
Beautiful shots Zip-in-Z... thanks for posting those!
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Anyone who calls a goldfinch or our yellow colored warblers a "wild canary" is not going to be familiar with body or bill structure. I have heard many people refer to our Yellow Warbler as a canary. Here is a photo I took of a female Yellow Warbler sitting on a "triple decker" nest. Every time a cowbird laid an egg in the warbler's nest she responded by building another nest on top of the first one. This determined little warbler finally succeeded in raising three chicks of her own on the third layer. Photo was taken in my yard a few years ago.
http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/attac...1&d=1536760545 |
Osprey In The City? You Bet!
Hi I am new here and I do not have a picture to share, but I would like to share this with the bird watchers.
Last week I was walking around Lacombe Lake in St. Albert. While I was walking around the lake I noticed what I believed to be an Osprey hovering over the lake in circles around 200 feet up, he/she was obviously scoping it out so I stopped to watch what would happen. I knew there were fish in the lake because I had stopped in the past and asked people that were fishing there what they were fishing for? I was told gold fish, so I laughed to myself and went along my way thinking fishing for tiny gold fish that's funny! Sure enough it was an Osprey and within 5 minutes of circling down it came really fast, it hit the water hard and to my amazement it took off with a gold fish in claws, not the type of gold fish that you see in an aquarium. this gold fish in my estimation was at least 5 lbs and it was gold in color because I could see the color perfectly! Anyway a couple of days later I was doing my daily walk and the city was spraying the lake to kill these gold fish that are an invasive species because they want to stock trout in it. I looked in the lake and could not beleve all of the 5 lbs. + gold fish dying in the lake and flaoting to the surface. If someone had of told me that I would witness an Osprey dive bombing a tiny lake in the city and see it fly away with a 5 lbs + fish I would never had believed them in a million years, yet it happened. Only sad part of this story it that the Osprey will be gone now that all the fish are all dead. Fianlly a young boy caught a 16 lbs gold fish out of the lake about a week ago! Next time someone tells me they are fishing for gold fish in the city I am definately getting my fishing rod lol. |
I feed birds all year and I have two sisters who are also into birds and who put out feed for them.
My photos are from everywhere I've been with my camera. First, a Mountain Bluebird https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4260/3...8c3a2b_b_d.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4240/3...04f5cd_b_d.jpg Next is a Wilson's Warbler https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6208/6...131f96_b_d.jpg A mixed flock of Blue and Snow Geese. Of course most hunters know they are colour phases of the same species https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6099/6...fa9bdb_b_d.jpg Arguably our most colourful bird. The only time I've seen a Baltimore Oriole in my yard. https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2648/5...acf1bd_b_d.jpg Green Wing Teal, locals call them Butter Balls and they are quiet the challenge to hunt in the local sloughs. https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7177/7...5f6116_b_d.jpg I wonder how many know that in summer if you see a Waxwing in Alberta it's a Ceder Waxwing and in winter it's a Bohemian Waxwing? It has to do with their summer nesting grounds. Bohemians are more colourful then Ceder Waxwing. I photographed this Bohemian in Manning at the SRD office, they show up there every winter to feed on the fruit of a Crab Apple tree that produces tons of very small fruit. https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7197/6...ec03e4_b_d.jpg I'll see if I can find more photos I haven't posted here. |
A few more, I've got hundreds more but I'll limit my contribution to leave space for others to post.
Pine Grosbeak on one of my feeders. https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4152/5...a41cb3_b_d.jpg Spruce Grouse west of Notikewin https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4084/5...72fb96_b_d.jpg Ceder Waxing Hawk Hills community water supply reservoir. https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4075/4...12aa49_b_d.jpg Night Hawk at government gravel stockpile location. I suspect they nest here but I haven't found a nest there, yet. https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4080/4...d4e543_b_d.jpg I know that Geese nest at this location because; , , , https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4137/4...c5353f_b_d.jpg Myrtle Warbler, in my sister's yard. https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4115/4...901234_b_d.jpg Sora Rail, common here but very hard to find. https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4118/4...76a6e6_b_d.jpg Short Eared Owl on a neighbours fence line. https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5041/5...cfdee5_b_d.jpg All the photos I post are under a creative commons license which means that anyone can download and use them for their own purposes but not for financial gain or publication in any form without my written permission. |
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Great story. I've spent many ours watching Osprey hunt. It is amazing to watch. But no Goldfish for them here, just Trout. :) |
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Excellent pics.
Here's an interesting note on one of the birds we love to hate. Between 1892 and 1911 a bird watcher, Frank Farley, from the Red Deer & Lacombe area only saw 2 magpies in that area. |
Excellent thread. I’ll definitely follow this one. One question, does anyone know a way do get rid of those pesky magpies. In the winter I get a dozen or so at my feeders and they put the run on the smaller birds.
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[QUOTE=KegRiver;3839730]A few more, I've got hundreds more but I'll limit my contribution to leave space for others to post.
Thanks for posting. Saw quite a few Baltimore Orioles out camping this year and wondered what they were. |
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