Photography, wildlife and more

[DonP]

I forgot one of my favourites. Here's my niece with her new friend.

 

[Bocc69]

I forgot one of my favourites. Here's my niece with her new friend

Very nice picture.
Looks like a black capped chickadee.

 

[DonP]

Very nice picture.
Looks like a black capped chickadee.

Yeah, but she gets all antsy if you call her that.

 

[Bocc69]

 

[JohnnyGoo]

Thats a great picture Don.

 

[JohnnyGoo]

Great Humming Bird pic Bocc69.our Humming Birds out here are alot more green on them.green and red color.

 

[Bocc69]

Great Humming Bird pic Bocc69.our Humming Birds out here are alot more green on them.green and red color.

Yea, Johnny....ours usually are very green and red. The picture is deceiving, she is green, just not from that profile.

It's a ruby throated hummingbird, our only variety here. I think you have 7 varieties in your area.

Also, The picture is a juvenile female, which doesn't display such brilliant colors yet. The adult females are green, the males are green and have the ruby patch.

 

[DonP]

Yea, Johnny....ours usually are very green and red. The picture is deceiving, she is green, just not from that profile.

It's a ruby throated hummingbird, our only variety here. I think you have 7 varieties in your area.

Also, The picture is a juvenile female, which doesn't display such brilliant colors yet. The adult females are green, the males are green and have the ruby patch.

According to my bird book, that would place you in Wisconsin. Close?

 

[Bocc69]

Im in CT, and I was incorrect. We have 3 species. We also have the Rufous and the Calliope.

I was at my desk working, and it hit me. The ruby is the most common, not only.

 

[Bocc69]

 

[smitty_p]

I am still using a flip phone.

Hey, if it was good enough for Captain Kirk...

(Of course, they called them "communicators", but same thing, right?)

 

[Bocc69]

Looking out my family room window past spring

 

[Bocc69]

Looking out to my front yard this past Sunday.

 

[DonP]

Looking out to my front yard this past Sunday.

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That's not a garden - it's a larder. Yum!

 

[JohnnyGoo]

those Gobblers wild ? nice

 

[Bocc69]

those Gobblers wild ? nice

Very wild. Usually 30-60 at a time in my yard. Bastad's chase my deer away!

 

[JohnnyGoo]

wow,you ever eat one ? probably no different than the wild ducks and geese that are in the fields and ponds and such around here.

 

[Bocc69]

I haven't eaten one from my woods, but I have eaten wild Turkey my friends have hunted. They are much drier than farm raised, otherwise good.

I have tried unsuccessfully to hunt one with my bow the last five years. They are difficult critters (not talking about plinking one in my yard, as that ain't hunting)

The closest I came, was releasing an arrow, only to have the tom jump over it @20yards. Unbelievable! I can hit a quarter at 90 feet consistently, and my arrow goes 280-300 feet a second. Do the math!

280fs x miss = Frustrating.

 

[Inspector #20]

View of Wishon Valley, near Lake Wishon, California

 

[Inspector #20]

Random house near Oakhurst, California