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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    well im at almost a year (basically may to about june... and again this march) i have counted approx 96 birds.. im hoping to get 100 by may...(and by counted, ive photographed)...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    Im WAY south of you.. Near Estevan... checking out your blog though!] havent seen many lately.. had 2 snowy owls hanging around for awhile last month, but they took off.. got my first redpolls (common methinks??) .. with 6-8 cats around the house at any given time, really cuts back the amount of...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    hope hes okay!! i wanna see a wood duck so bad!! but we dont have any around here im interested in that tamron lens for nikon...i keep saying, i have a birthday coming up.. lol today got to see more babies.. pied billed grebes, horned grebes (they were far out though), and more coots.. then...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    yea this guy was a juvenile up in a tree.. havent been able to look for birds much.. but have been able to see the massive amounts of coot babies out there.. got some ponds with 3-4 different ages of them.. (red headed ones, white headed ones, and ones with a different colour beak).. but...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    apparently its a juv. male orchard oriole.. didnt know we got em here.. we're just discovering those wormy things.. sucks.. got a coot with chicks behind the house.. however theyve got a fine warning system and hide the babies as soon as we get near the pond.. havent seen geese for awhile.. a...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    havent been out too much.. dusty as heck and most of the roads are flooded over.. been seeing quite a few coot babies, and mallard ducklings once.. finally got a good shot of my flicker i think.. snipes, and an upland sandpiper i believe.. beein seein some weird behaviour from some of the...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    apparently the bird ive been seeing.. they havent had here in years.. so im really lucky i am able to see all these types of water birds.. only missing like loons, and 1 or 2 types of grebes that are supposed to be around here.. more north though i think.. went wandering around the old garden...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    i was in the shade too chasin the damn hummingbird.. lol i use elements when i really wanna tweak my pix.. otherwise, i just crop em and lighten em up a bit.. ive seen a couple flickers here. hard to photograph the buggers.. this was a little bird, with a black almost figure 8 of black on his...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    finally saw my first hummingbird (ruby throated).. he perched on a branch right near me.. unfortunately he was in the shade, so the colours are muted, but if the pictures are as good on the computer as they are on the camera.. it looks like i got some good shots!!.. also got a yellow warbler and...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    the birds around here have rejected our feeders.. they shun them.. BOO i say.. we seem to see the same two bitterns.. i saw it again today.. right next to the side of the road, and it sat and posed for me while i took like 40 shots from the truck.. i would love to see the waxwings!! i am...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    this morning i saw a warbler (yellow i think with the orange breast stripes), and an American Goldfinch i believe.. way far out on the trees though.. yesterday saw a bunch of Ruddys, a canvasback, canadian geese, a bittern, an eared grebe nice and close.. a bunch of coots at war (6 of em all...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    hmmm maybe we have seen the rusty blackbird.. looks really similar to the brewers blackbird we have here.. who knows.. hard to really tell between them.. i would love to see the flycatcher in real life.. would be awesome.. and we've had cardinals do that to our windows.. had to hang rubber...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    we see turkey vultures quite a bit, but never seem to get close enough to get pictures of anything other then a silhouette.. i manage to get the focus pretty good.. but my bf tends to flip it to manual.. drives him nuts that i dont need to.. lol apparently ravens migrate here.. i think we have...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    had a pretty good day yesterday.. saw a bunch of new ones, and quite a few favs.. some gadwalls (easily scared away birds, i dont think im ever going to get a good shot), geese with babies, bufflehead, bobolink, the (i think) lesser Scaup, an eared grebe, pintail, red necked grebe (3 doin the...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    yea im going to be upgrading lenses soon i hope.. ive seen those beanbags, they look awesome.. most of the time with me, its just that the birds are tooo far away! .. i have gotten quite lucky with some being right on the edge though.. i was able to ID all my birds.. the 2 long beaked ones are a...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    had a really good day yesterday.. saw like 10 new types.. tree swallows, scaups, bufflehead, a western kingbird i think, some type of sparrow (Savannah possibly), a possible sandhill crane that was WAY too far away..a red necked grebe, and 2 other really long beaked birds.. found one of them...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    yea i want the 70-300 or 55-300 next.. good thing i have a birthday coming up. i posted a picture of the bittern.. the file for the rail is too big and it keeps saying the connection has timed out.. so i gotta work on that one.. my bf has the same nikon as me, but i have the bigger lens.. so...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    i just moved here from ontario actually, and we never see birds like this.. around here they say this is highly unusual as well.. im using a Nikon D3100, with a 55-200 lens.. i need a bigger lens! we get some great shots if the bird is within 30 feet or so.. beyond that, blurs.. hopefully enough...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    well, its usually just fields, but with all the rain.. nice puddles and ponds on the side of the road.. seen all kinds of ducks.. ruddys, shovelers, green and blue winged teals.. canvasbacks and redheads...wigeons, gadwalls and grebes galore! i usually come home with my new types of birds to...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    i so have that book!! its our go to reference.. however we have found ones that are NOT in there.. so i also have the birds of canada, and birds of north america one to look through! ive never seen a bunting.. but there are 2 bitterns nesting just down the road from us, so we usually head...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    says almost 3 hours.. but that would be awesome.. right now with all the extra water, we just drive down the backroads.. see all kinds of ducks and wading birds ( my fav is the bittern and the ruddy duck).. unfortunately we also see a whole bunch of small brown sparrow like birds that we cant...
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    wow thanks!! we're hoping to get to the bird sanctuary thing (last mountain) some time this year.. but its like a 6 hour round trip.. or longer..
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    Saskatchewan Birds?

    Have just moved to Saskatchewan and have been wondering where in the south east you can go to look for birds? So far ive just been driving along the backroads finding all kinds of ducks, but would like to find some more types! (Primarily to photograph)
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