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    Spring is sprung...

    da grass is rizz I wonder where da boidies is. Down here in SE Texas, the robins appear on their way north just before the last cold snap. That is usually some time in Feb, but occasionally it happens so early in the year that they have come and gone by Feb and I don't even see them. Not this...
  2. Young Cooper's Hawk

    Young Cooper's Hawk

    This bird keeps returning to our back yard feeder where the hunting has been good.
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    • Category: North America
  3. Cooper's Hawk

    Cooper's Hawk

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  4. Cooper's Hawk

    Cooper's Hawk

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    Dallas Area Hummers

    Rather than a hummingbird, you probably saw a dead duck. Actually, it was probably a late ruby-throated hummingbird. Jelly won't help. A feeder might so that it can load up in order to get to the south as quickly as possible. I doubt that it will survive the winter in Dallas. I'm in Houston...
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    identifying accipiters-HELP!

    I understand your problem. I see various raptors almost every day but don't have the knowledge to identify them on the fly. A pair nested in a tree by the pond down the bayou two years ago, and even though I saw them almost every day, I couldn't get close enough to identify them. Wouldn't it be...
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    Ruby-throated pic!

    Then here's a real ruby-throated hummingbird in the wild. I was trying to get a picture of a butterfly that my wife liked and was focused on the flowers below the feeder. As I waited for the butterfly to settle I heard a hum. I looked up and there was this hummer about an arms length away, just...
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    Grackles

    Went shopping with my wife and stopped for lunch and nice cheese and wine deli. The parking lot was full of grackles, not unusual around here. They are so audacious that you can get within a few feet of them. The males are iridescent black/indigo. Where I used to work we went out to lunch at a...
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    Short walk down the bayou and around the pond

    Same walk along the bayou and around the pond. There was that same shrike sitting on the same little branch, at the top of that same bush in the same field. Further down the bayou there was a Great Egret standing on the bank. At lunch in a fast food place very close to home, I looked out the...
  10. Snowy egret and friend

    Snowy egret and friend

    water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus) in grass on the right.
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    Short walk down the bayou and around the pond

    Warm, sunny day with a light breeze. The first bird was a Snowy Egret wading in the bayou under the bridge. Down the path there was a Loggerhead Shrike in a bush. And later a Double-crested Cormorant took off from the pond. Also saw some mourning doves.
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    2 Texas raptors

    Thanks, all. At least my initial identification of the 1st seems to be agreed to by all - Cooper's Hawk (juv). Given the size of the second, I'll go with Sharp-shinned Hawk. I'm not to the point that I want to quibble about gender.
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    albino

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    ID Help (Chicago)

    Agreed. The first picture is of Monk Parakeets. The second is either a juvenile Cooper's Hawk or Sharp-shinned Hawk. It would depend on how big it is. Here is a juvenile Cooper's Hawk in my yard, a bit older than yours. About 16" long. A Sharp-shinned Hawk would be just under a foot long.
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    Great Egret ID

    Nice pictures. I would guess that you have two different species. I am only familiar with egrets in the US, but I have seen three different species together, along with a Great Blue Heron.
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    Backyard Hummingbirds

    Those are stunning, Jim. The third one, the lazy hummingbird is a juvenile, probably male. Of course, you already knew that.
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    Albino Ruby-throated Hummingbird

    I took this picture in Rockport, Texas a few years ago. They have a festival there every year in Sept as the Ruby-throated hummers are migrating through. I have some friends who live there and my wife and I go down every year or two. Also recorded my first Black-chinned Hummer and an out of...
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    Scored a bit of a coup by accident

    Went for a walk along the bayou and around the pond with my wife and dog the other day. My wife mentioned that the day before she had seen a bird of some kind run across the path between the pond and the bayou. On our way back a bird ran across the path and my wife said that it was the same kind...
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    2 Texas raptors

    Thanks, Dave. I thought that the second picture most resembled the Northern Goshawk in Sibley, but the head color is wrong (no white supercilium), my bird is much, much too small, and way too far south.
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    Hello from Texas

    Just joined last night and already I'm not the newest member. I'm just outside of Houston, right were the expanding ranges of the Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) from the east and the White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica) from the west meet in my back yard. There they join...
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    2 Texas raptors

    Upper Texas coast - just northwest of Houston. This bird explains the pile of feathers I found last week in the back yard. It keeps coming back. The other day as I was looking out the window I saw it swoop down at a bunch of sparrows. It missed. I'm not good with raptors so I'm not sure what...
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