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I get just a small taste of the cacophony every morning when my green cheek conure, Harvey, wakes up. And cockatoos are considerably louder than he is. I do sleep in the same room where Harvey's cage is, I wouldn't dream of doing the same with a cockatoo! The kookaburras we have at the zoo aren't exactly quiet either. Yeah, parrots and such are cool animals, and nice to look at, but if I'm going to have 10 of something in my back yard in the morning, I'd rather have goldfinches than rosellas.

I would like to know what kinds of places members have gone to get these photos, especially Rob and Denver!

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A few more pictures.
I took these pics at an Bird park!

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I sold this one today

You sell pics?..thats cool.
Your pics are so good that it can be sold anytime

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awsome pics everyone!!! thank you for makeing this thread rob!!

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Few from yellowstone.

This one had made a nest in a tree that died as a result of the ground temp rising as a new hot spring formed. The whole area was desolate looking (and smelly) except for this bright little spot of blue.


Later on some birders pointed this little guy out.

A Mountain Bluebird and a Cassin's finch, nice...

I might be able to post some photos of the finches and tits I feed tomorrow or something... My computer is broken so I can't do much in the way of uploading/editing photos right now. My main crew consists of American Goldfinches, Lesser Goldfinches, Pine Siskins, House Finches, Purple Finches, Oak Titmice, and Chestnut-Backed Chickadees.

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Here are some photos I took in the morning... The quality is not very good due to all the fires we've been having; the air is a cloudy gray and the sunlight has a gross orange tinge to it.

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More from today...

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Here's one of the members of a crow family I feed. I think this is one of the juveniles (judging by the light-colored corners of the mouth).

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That's not a bird! *points*!


Who are the young juvies?

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The otter scared away all the birds we were feeding in the pond, but then it climbed out and rolled around in the dirt and tried to look innocent, so I took some photos of it.

The chicks are my cousin's; there are three Gold-Laced Wyandottes and three Silver-Laced Wyandottes. She's had them for about a week now, but they are already pretty much tamed (they are pets, not for food).

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A Rainbow Bee-Eater I saw while out walking around the suburbs this morning:

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s250/Gone_Troppo/miscellaneous%20stuff/rainbow_bee-eater.jpg

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Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

You get pretty birds around your place like that GT?
And it sat still while you got a photo, excellent.

Thanks Bren

This bee-eater was the only 'co-operative' one of 5 or 6 pairs that I saw this morning. I also saw lots of lorikeets and a couple of kingfishers while out and about, but unfortunately couldn't get any nice pics of them either.

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Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

These few did stay still for me.
Wagtail chicks


figeater bird


young galah

Here are some pics i took some time ago!
Some from the park and some from the cottage.
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And some birds from our cottage up in the mountain.
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4.This fella came inside our cotage,i did however get it out after some time.

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Hahaha, owls always look hilarious when they get their photo taken. I've bought books on birds before just for the photos in the owl section.

EDIT: Also, those are excellent photos of the swallows. What species are they? I've tried to take pictures of the Violet-Green Swallows that nest around my house, but I have failed miserably thus far.

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First bird in the cottage section is doing a great faceplant into the leaves

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eurasian eagle owl - good shots!

I've got other owl photos - but they're buried somewhere on my harddrive.

How does one go about photographing wild owls anyway? I mean I found one floating face-down in my pond last week, but I think that was too easy.

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Here's something I saw this morning that's only slightly less morbid - a House Finch with what appears to be a large tumor on the side of its head. The Pine Siskin to the left looks like it lost its appetite.





(The poor quality of the photos is because the windows were covered in hard water stains.)

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Here's something you don't see every day...

(Once we ran out of bread it decided it had enough of us)

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Great pics guys...keep em coming

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What type of bird is the one in the first couple of photos? It looks a lot like our various Emberizine sparrows... I think the only members of that family that are found in the Old World are the longspurs, though.

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Natalie - looks like a female or juvenile House Sparrow to me.

I have various photos from the past year that I just never uploaded until now.

Backyard:
House Finches at feeder

Goldfinches at Feeder

Western Scrub Jay

Juvenile Red-Shouldered Hawk let me get surprisingly close before flying away with the bird it was eating

Inside the house:
Harvey!

At the Oakland Zoo:
Blue and Gold Macaw

Griffon Vulture

Lesser Flamingos and African Spoonbills

Malayan Wreathed Hornbill

Egyptian Goose

Crowned Crane

Pied Crows

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pied crows heehee, anyone else think of
"four and twenty blackbirds baked into a pie..."

Here's a few from the garden this morning. Adam and I spotted a king parrot last night, will have to try and shoot him too

Bad pics of a Prothonotary Warbler, quite a rare species around here...

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