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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-08-2024, 05:03 PM
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Feisty is right, I have had two come to the feeder this year, one last year. The one is the queen of the feeder, she chases other birds off very aggressively. We have a pine warbler that has been coming this winter, I witnesses a little aerial altercation a couple days ago, and now it seems she leaves the pine alone. But the boss bird is the peaceful mourning doves, they even chase the blue jays off, when they decide to use the feeder. Usually though they just forage on the ground for dropped seeds.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-03-2022, 10:12 AM
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I don't often post birds at feeders, but I wanted to get a shot of a Tufted Titmouse throwing seed out of the feeder, they throw out what they don't want. There have been some other birds and squirrels cleaning some of it up, but I guess it will pay to buy the more expensive bird food, rather than see half of it on the ground.
 Bad Food by Tom Ramsey, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-06-2022, 05:00 PM
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Not really in the yard, but close to home :). Wow, the Little Corella is so sharp! and pretty colorful for a white bird
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-17-2021, 12:34 PM
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Not exactly my yard, but while kayaking this morning, I came upon a tree full of herons, all the great blues, great egrets, and any tricolors that may have been there fled immediately, but the black-crowned night herons stayed right there. I'm not sure, but I think I have six of them in photos (still working on them), here's an adult with a juvenile behind.
 Black-crowned Night Herons by Tom Ramsey, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-06-2021, 05:53 PM
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Not exactly in the yard, just across the street. About the only thing I've been able to get out and shoot the last few days, it's just been too wet and gloomy when I've had time.
 Great Egret by Tom Ramsey, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-28-2021, 06:07 PM
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I think we have a brown thrasher nest close to the house, I've saw two of them together on this fence. Hopefully no brown cowbirds will find the nest. The brown cowbirds parasitic brooding has hurt the thrasher population severely.
 Thrasher on a Fence by Tom Ramsey, on Flickr
 Brown Thrasher by Tom Ramsey, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-29-2020, 06:40 AM
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Those Fairy Wren are beautiful, why are all of the most beautiful birds so hard to shoot? It does seem that way, but then so many of them are very small and very active. You would think wrens are a nervous wreck. What's odd about those Pileated Woodpeckers, and Red-Headed Woodpeckers too, are that they are larger, but flighty like smaller birds, and they are usually high in the canopy.
Since we moved we are near the habitat of the red-cockaded woodpecker, which I have not seen one yet. They are not an endangered species but they are close because their habitat is disappearing. I can get to one of their big habitat areas in about a 10 minute drive, but as of yet unsuccessful in spotting any. But I have seen my first pine warblers in that same area.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-28-2020, 08:19 PM
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I was happy to see these visitors in the yard, they areusually on the move and up high, Pileated Woodpecker, North America's largest oodpecker, unless the Ivory Billed is not extinct.
 Looking for Berries by Tom Ramsey, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-19-2020, 07:59 PM
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An odd Northern Mocking bird today, it was quiet, but I missed the pileated woodpecker that was in the yard today, maybe tomorrow
 Northern Mockingbird by Tom Ramsey, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-08-2020, 06:25 PM
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I've been watching out the window for this bird, it's actually across the street and was there when I got home this afternoon. Usually there ius a Great Egret at this pond, occasionally though I've spotted this Snowy Egret when I couldn't get to it. He was a little jittery with me around, but I think I can get closer next time I see him.
 Snowy Egret by Tom Ramsey, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-20-2015, 05:08 PM
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When I got home from work Friday this yard bird and just killed another yard bird and had it for a nice meal
 Happy Hawk by Tom Ramsey, on Flickr
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